Registration for Summer and Fall Terms
2023-03-13 - 2023-03-17

Reading Week (no classes)
2023-03-20 - 2023-03-24

Classes resume and Spring Semester Session II begins
2023-03-27

Session I and midterm grades deadline
2023-03-27

Easter recess begins after classes
2023-04-05

Classes resume (excluding SMP and ODS Programs)
2023-04-11

Classes resume for SMP Program
2023-04-17

Classes resume for ODS Program
2023-04-18

Call Day
2023-04-26 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Assignment of Vicarages 3 p.m. (CDT)
Service Folder (PDF)
Assignment of Calls 7 p.m. (CDT)
Service Folder (PDF)

Call Day, an annual event, is the day when concluding students receive their first pastoral or diaconal ministry placements, and second-year students receive their vicarage or deaconess internship assignments. All calls and assignments for service are to churches or ministries within The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Join us in-person in the chapel, via live stream, Facebook or YouTube.

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Deadline for SMP Entry Level Competency Exams for Fall 2023 matriculation
2023-04-30

Deadline for Old Testament, New Testament, Christian Doctrine ELCEs for Fall 2023 matriculation
2023-04-30

Spring Semester classes end for SMP Program
2023-05-15

Spring Semester classes end for ODS Program
2023-05-16

Spring Semester of 2022-23 academic year ends after classes
2023-05-18

Commencement
2023-05-19 | Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Owing to forecasted inclement weather, tonight’s Commencement exercises have been moved indoors to the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus. Start time remains at 7 p.m. CDT. Please join us in person or online at csl.edu/live

Concordia Seminary’s Commencement exercises for the 2023 graduating class will take place Friday, May 19, 2023. Events will be available via live stream at csl.edu/live.

During the morning service, all graduates who have been certified by the Concordia Seminary faculty as eligible to receive calls to serve as pastors or deaconesses in The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS) will receive theological diplomas. Dr. David Adams, professor of Exegetical Theology and the W.G. Ray and Louis J. Rechtzigel Professor of Biblical Studies at Concordia Seminary, will deliver the sermon. In the evening, certificates, academic degrees and honors will be conferred. Rear Adm. Gregory Todd (’88), who serves as the chief of chaplains in the U.S. Navy, will give the Commencement address.

TIMESERVICELOCATION10 a.m. CDTTheological Diploma ServiceChapel7 p.m. CDTCommencement ceremonyMain Quadrangle(Chapel if rain)

Summer Term begins for all programs
2023-05-22

SMP and ODS Spring Semester grade deadline
2023-05-30

Deadline for Greek and Hebrew ELCEs for Fall 2023 matriculation
2023-05-31

Spring Semester grade deadline
2023-06-01

Summer Term begins for SMP Program
2023-06-05

Summer Term begins for ODS Program
2023-06-06

Reduced Residency Advanced Studies (S.T.M./Ph.D.) courses begin
2023-06-12

Summer Hebrew begins
2023-06-12

Reduced Residency Advanced Studies (S.T.M./Ph.D.) courses end
2023-06-23

SMP & GPC intensive courses
2023-06-26 - 2023-06-30

No SMP or ODS courses due to July 4 holiday
2023-07-03 - 2023-07-04

Summer language courses (Greek, Hebrew) end
2023-08-18

Summer Term ends (excluding SMP and ODS Programs)
2023-08-18

Summer Term grade deadline (excluding SMP and ODS Programs)
2023-08-18

SMP Summer Session ends
2023-08-21
