Vacancies List

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• 20 May 2025, 11:51 a.m.

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  Priest in Charge - Carlisle Holy Trinity & St Barnabas

  

  Priest in Charge
  Benefice of Carlisle Holy Trinity & St Barnabas
  
  Come and grow with us in faith, courage and community.
  We are seeking a Priest in Charge who brings strong theological depth, spiritual resilience, and a collaborative heart to lead our large and socially diverse parish.
  
  What we offer:
  • A committed team ministry context where collaboration is essential and valued
  • A congregation that is open, prayerful, and ready to grow
  • A willingness to try new things and proven success in reaching children and families
  • A parish with enormous potential, embracing a wide socio-economic spectrum—from long-established communities to areas of real challenge and opportunity.
  • Lay people who are ready to be encouraged, equipped, and released into ministry
  • A church community that knows vision and reality don’t always align—but believes God works in the gap between
  
  What we’re looking for:
  • A strong team leader with theological maturity and spiritual presence
  • A collaborative priest who values and invests in both lay and ordained colleagues
  • Someone who can communicate with grace and clarity across class, culture and ages
  • A priest who can lead gently, encourage faithfully, and discern wisely
  • Someone with a calling to nurture both the faithful and the curious—reaching in and reaching out
  St Barnabas is ready for the next chapter. We are looking for someone who feels called to walk it with us—not alone, but with God and one another.
  Could that be you?
  
  For an informal conversation please contact Archdeacon Ruth Newton (07919 792051)
  This is a full-time stipendiary post (£31,840 from April 2025)
  For a profile and application form, please visit www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies
  
  Closing date: 3rd September 2025
  Interviews: 22nd September 2025
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• 26 Mar 2025, 6:16 p.m.

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  Full-time Rector, Benefice of Workington

  

  Benefice of Workington
  Full-time Rector
  
  Are you the person God is calling here?
  
  The vibrant market town of Workington, is prayerfully seeking a new Rector. We are a united benefice of two parishes with magnificent and contrasting buildings in prominent locations. Each has a distinct flavour, but we are both steeped in the Liberal Catholic tradition. Both parishes have seen recent growth with a diversity of ages, nationalities and backgrounds and we are looking for someone to lead us into the next stage of our mission.
  
  We are praying for a priest who is:
  deeply grounded in their faith in Christ and is able to lead the parishes in mission within the liberal Anglo-Catholic traditions of worship, prayer and liturgy
  prayerful and empathetic
  a collaborative, energetic and empowering leader
  committed to civic engagement and partnership as part of the Church’s mission
  enthusiastic about preaching and deepening the faith of people of all ages
  able to demonstrate a heart for young people
  pastoral and approachable
  committed to warm, ecumenical relationships
  blessed with a sense of humour
  
  For an informal conversation, please contact Archdeacon Stewart Fyfe on 07552 428772.
  
  For a profile and application form, please visit
  www.carlislediocese.org.uk/vacancies
  
  Closing date: 30th July 2025
  
  Interviews: 8th September 2025
  
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