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VOCATIONS > SELECTION CRITERIA |
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These criteria are used by everyone involved in the selection
process at diocesan and national level.
B VOCATION
Candidates should be able to speak of their sense of vocation
to ministry and mission, referring both to their own conviction
and to the extent to which others have confirmed it. Their
sense of vocation should be obedient, realistic and informed. |
D SPIRITUALITY
Candidates should show evidence of a commitment to a spiritual
discipline, involving individual and corporate prayer and
worship. Their spiritual practice should be such as to
sustain and energise them in their daily lives. |
F RELATIONSHIPS
Candidates should demonstrate self-awareness and self-acceptance
as a basis for developing open and healthy professional,
personal and pastoral relationships as ministers. They
should respect the will of the Church on matters of sexual
morality. |
H QUALITY OF MIND
Candidates should have the necessary intellectual capacity
and quality of mind to undertake satisfactorily a course
of theological study and ministerial preparation and to
cope with the intellectual demands of ministry.
Further
information can be found on the vocations pages of the
Church of England’s website.
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