Prof. Sergei D. Arhipov retired in 2017 after serving as an officer in the US Army and a career as research librarian that began in NYC, and culminated in serving the Church as Head Librarian and Registrar at St. Tikhon’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Well-known for his recension of the Apostol, Sergei is a  life-long musician and lover of languages. He began translating Church Slavonic liturgical services together with Isaac Lambertsen (+Monk Joseph) under the tutelage of Fr. Vladimir S. Borichevsky, then Dean of St. Tikhon’s, in 1973. His first work was the translation of the Akathist Hymn in honor of the Mother of God “She Who is Quick to Hear”, still being sung by the brotherhood of St. Tikhon’s to this day.  Highly respected for his countless  prayers, commemorations, and eulogies composed in the Japanese Haiku form, Fr. Vladimir lamented the strictly mechanical production of what he termed “pedestrian” translations being produced for the English-speaking Orthodox Church of the heady early days of American autocephaly. He frequently remarked  that the prayers of the Church should be written in a poetic form to complement the harmonies and rhythms of the original Hebrew and Greek, which were preserved so wonderfully in the beautiful melodies and expressions of traditional Church Slavonic services. Following this wish and his example, Sergei has dedicated his musical  and artistic life to the memory of Fr. Vladimir and to the expression of the Orthodox liturgical life in what he has termed, “Revised Liturgical English”, and which you will now find in the publications of Aorist Press.