Call Day
2026-04-28 | Chapel of St. Timothy & St. Titus, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Assignment of Vicarages and Deaconess Internships 3 p.m. (CDT)
Assignment of Calls 7 p.m. (CDT)
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 livestream, Facebook or YouTube.

Spring Semester classes end for SMP program
2026-05-11 | MO

Spring Semester classes end for ODS program
2026-05-12 | MO

Spring Semester ends after classes
2026-05-14 | MO

Commencement
2026-05-15 | Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
Concordia Seminary’s Commencement exercises for the 2026 graduating class will take place Friday, May 15, 2026. Events will be available via livestream on Facebook, You Tube and at csl.edu/live.
Theological Diploma Service
10 a.m. CDT in the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus
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. Timothy Saleska, the Seminary’s Gustav and Sophie Butterbach Professor of Exegetical Theology, will deliver the sermon.
Commencement
7 p.m. CDT in the Main Quadrangle
Certificates, academic degrees and honors will be conferred. Rev. Theodore Krey, regional director for the Latin America and the Caribbean region of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, will give the Commencement address.

Summer Term begins
2026-05-18 | MO

Deadline for Greek and Hebrew ELCEs for Fall 2026 matriculation
2026-05-18 | MO

Summer Term classes begin for SMP program
2026-06-01 | MO

Summer Term classes begin for ODS program
2026-06-02 | MO

Reduced Residency Graduate School Courses begin
2026-06-08 | MO

Summer Greek begins
2026-06-15 | MO

Reduced Residency Graduate School Courses end
2026-06-19 | MO

SMP & GPC intensive courses
2026-06-22 - 2026-06-26 | MO

SMP Summer Session ends
2026-08-10 | MO

ODS Summer Session ends
2026-08-11 | MO

Summer Greek ends
2026-08-14 | MO

Summer Term ends
2026-08-14 | MO

Orientation
2026-08-17 - 2026-08-20 | Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, 801 Seminary Place, St. Louis, MO, 63105, United States
New students are familiarized with their programs during Orientation.

Fall Semester of 2026-27 academic year begins (excluding SMP & ODS programs)
2026-08-24 | MO

Deadline for complete SMP applications for Spring 2027 matriculation
2026-08-31 | MO

Fall Semester classes begin for SMP program
2026-09-14 | MO

Fall Semester classes begin for ODS program
2026-09-15 | MO

Registration for Winterim and Spring Terms
2026-10-05 - 2026-10-09 | MO

Reading Week
2026-10-12 - 2026-10-16 | MO
No residential class sessions are scheduled. (Online class sessions for semester-long courses in non-residential programs are in session.)

Session I and midterm grades deadline
2026-10-19 | MO

Deadline for SMP ELCEs for Spring 2027 matriculation
2026-10-31 | MO

International Student Application deadline (Graduate School)
2026-11-15 | MO

Fall Semester SMP Term ends
2026-11-23 | MO

Fall Semester ODS Term ends
2026-11-24 | MO

Thanksgiving recess begins after classes
2026-11-24 | MO
