When you feel a call to ministry within the Anglican Church, it is important that you speak to your incumbent, priest, vicar or chaplain first.

If they agree with your sense of call, after a few conversations, they will refer you to the Diocesan Director of Ordinands or the Assistant Director of Ordinands (Revd Canon Dr Joanne Grenfell and Revd Mary Gregory), who will want you to talk to a Vocations Advisor.

As part of the process you will be asked to have a number of conversations, perhaps visit some churches or go on placement.  You will also be asked to read some relevant books and possibly undertake some study.

All of this will help you, and those involved in selection, to discern the right path. 

If you, and those involved in discernment, think it right to continue this process, you will be interviewed by a Local Diocesan Panel, and if successful, by a national Bishop’s Advisory Panel a few months later.  

These Panels discern a candidate’s suitability to begin training for Ordained Ministry and the discernment process continues through until Ordination itself.

Click here for a flow-chart detailing the selection process for the Sheffield Diocese.