• Completion of Bachelor’s degree
• Facility with the spoken and written English language
• Ability to “easily discern truth and falsehood with a sharp intellectual discretion” (Canon 349)
• Catechized according to the Byzantine tradition, including the study of Christ, Our Pascha
• Introduction into Vocal Technique as it pertains to liturgical chant
• Liturgical competency in areas of responsibility for those in minor orders
• Completion of philosophical and introductory curriculum with a view to the Byzantine Christian tradition (for discipleship stage), i.e.

Sources from Antiquity [History of Philosophy] (2 semesters)

Introduction to Church History (1 semesters)

Catechetics (1 semester)

Greek (2 semesters)

Introduction to Music [Music Theory] (1 semester)

Logic (1 semester)

Epistemology (1 semester)

Ethics (1 semester)

Metaphysics (1 semester)

Natural Theology (1 semester)

Anthropology (1 semester)

Cosmology [Aristotelean Physics] (1 semester).