[1] Since 2015, it has been located in Armonk, New York and is the only Armenian theological seminary in the Western hemisphere.
[2] St. Nersess Armenian Seminary was an idea of Archbishop Tiran Nersoyan, who served as the first dean.
[5] It was founded in 1961 in Evanston, Illinois and was originally affiliated with Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in suburban Chicago.
To celebrate the 40th anniversary of the seminary, a symposium on Armenian and Christian near East worship traditions was held, later collected in book form in 2006.
[11] In 2012, a new campus was planned and built for the seminary in Armonk, which opened in 2015 and was formally dedicated the following year.