Diocese of Chelmsford Curacy Posts 2027

This Hub is designed to provide information and resources for those interested in applying to be considered for these title posts.

Invitation to express an interest

• Click here to find out how to express an interest

  If you are interested in serving your Curacy in the Diocese of Chelmsford, please email the Diocese of Chelmsford Vocations Team at ddo@chelmsford.anglican.org

   

• How the process works
  1. Once you have expressed an interest in serving your Curacy in the Diocese of Chelmsford, you will be contacted for an informal conversation with a member of the Diocesan Director or Ordinands Team
  2. Following the informal conversation, you will be asked to submit paperwork accompanied by a covering letter expressing why you feel called to serve in Chelmsford Diocese.
  3. If appropriate, formal interviews with a member of the Vocations Team will then follow. 
  4. Successful applicants will then be invited to discussions with Area Bishops to help discern the right Title Post.

Background reading

• Click here to read a message from the Bishop of Chelmsford

  

  Covering Essex and East London, Chelmsford is one of the largest, most diverse dioceses in the Church of England. We are home to more than 3 million people representing many socio-economic, ethnic and faith groups and a fantastic variety of cultures and traditions.

  We have enormous opportunities for mission and service and considerable challenges to face and resolve as we continue to deal with the local, national and global challenges that have a direct impact on our parish churches, schools, chaplaincies and the communities we serve.

  It is within this context and following a period of listening and discernment that started when I became Bishop of Chelmsford in 2021, that we set out a future direction of travel as a Diocese with a focus on travelling well together:

  • Our purpose is to love God and to love our neighbour; to worship faithfully and empowered by the Holy Spirit, witness to the love of God revealed in Jesus Christ as we serve the extraordinarily diverse array of local communities in Essex and East London.
  • Our approach is to enable and empower parishes and worshipping communities to discern how they are to be God’s people in their own very different local contexts and as part of one diocesan family.
  • Underpinning our approach is an invitation to a way of being articulated by shared diocesan values which might shape how we travel together, support each other and provide mutual accountability.

   

  The Diocese of Chelmsford offers a wide variety of exciting and demanding contexts in which our curates can learn and develop. Curates can be assured of support and guidance from our senior clergy, IME2 and vocations team and our training incumbents.

  Since I became Bishop of Chelmsford, I have witnessed people’s great warmth and I have seen first-hand, the wonderful things going on in our parishes and schools. Anyone joining us does so at a time of challenge, a time of change and most significantly a time of hope for our Church in this most diverse and vibrant of dioceses.

  

• Click here to read The Bishop of Chelmsford's Travelling Well Together Resource

  Applicants may find it helpful to view the Bishop of Chelmsford's Travelling Well Together resource. 

  

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