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The Diocesan Director of Ordinands Team

Last Updated on Friday, 31 May 2013 10:25

The Diocesan Director of Ordinands, under the Bishop, has oversight of the selection and training of ordination candidates. Their role is to work with men and women who sense that God may be calling them to ordained ministry.

For candidates who are exploring self-supporting ministry, there are a team of vocations advisers. The Revd Mary Gregory, is the Acting Director of Ordinands and she works with the Revd Canon Jane Bolton and the Revd Stephen Hunter who are the Self-Supporting Ministry Officer and Adviser.

Together they work with potential ordinands to explore their calling and discern the right path. When the time is right Mary, Jane or Stephen will work with candidates towards an interview with a Local Selection Panel before meeting with the Bishop to discuss sponsorship for a Bishop’s Advisory Panel (BAP).

If you believe that God may be calling you to be ordained (or any other) ministry, you should first contact your parish priest. He or she will talk you through the process and may advise you to get in touch with the Diocesan Director of Ordinands.

Vocations Advisors

Here is a list of Vocations Advisors in the Sheffield Diocese.  Your Director of Ordinands may ask you to contact one of them for some conversations about the vocations process.

• Revd Margaret Caunt
  Vicar of St James' Anston
• Revd Jeremy Clines
  Chaplain to the University of Sheffield
• Revd John Hutchison
  Chaplain of Sheffield Children's Hospital
• Revd Peter Ingram
  Vicar of Holy Trinity Millhouses
• Revd Hilary Jowett
  Team Rector of Gleadless
• Revd Keith Lowe
  Chaplain, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Revd Anesia Nascimento Cook
  Associate Priest, Rotherham Minster
• Revd Richard Parker
  Vicar of Hoyland
• Revd Gary Schofield
  Vicar of St John the Baptist, Wales
• Revd Eleanor Simpson
  Curate of Stainforth
• Revd Julian Sullivan
  Vicar of St.Mary's, Bramall Lane
• Revd Ann Walton
  Rector of Adwick-le-Street

Bishop’s Advisors

The following people are Bishop’s Advisors in the Sheffield Diocese.  They act on behalf of the Bishop at a Local Selection Panel.

• Mrs Janet Atkinson
  Bishop’s Lay Pastoral Advisor
• Revd Neil Bowler
  Rector of Whiston
• Canon Simon Cowling
  Canon Precentor, Sheffield Cathedral
• Revd Keith Farrow
  Vicar of Wadsley Bridge and IME 4-7 Officer
• Revd Canon Geoffrey Harbord
  Chaplain to the Bishop of Sheffield
• Revd Stephen Hunter
  Associate Priest, All Saints Ecclesall, and Self-Supporting Ministry Advisor
• Canon Brian Inston
  Vicar of St John’s Balby
• Dr Linda Kirk
  Formerly Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sheffield
• Canon Dr George Lings
  Director of The Church Army Sheffield Centre
• Revd Andrew Mauchan
  Bishop’s Pastoral Adviser
• Revd Julie Upton
  Team Rector of Sheffield Manor
• Revd Dr Richard Walton
  Reader at Sheffield Hallam University
• Revd Lydia Wells
  Vicar of St Oswald’s Abbeydale and St Peter’s Millhouses