We'd like to have a parish priest.....
Anyone who has been involved in recruiting a new vicar knows the challenges. It's a time-consuming process, to say the least. There's likely to be a long interregnum as extensive consultation takes place, a detailed 'parish profile' prepared and complex legal, diocesan and patronage rules negotiated. But does it have to be like this? A Save The Parish supporter in a rural Cornish deanery writes..... In our parish we’ve been in vacancy since the beginning of July 2025, and it would seem (from what I can deduce) that our vacancy is not likely to be filled any time soon. This situation (inexplicably to me) does not seem to be a matter of concern for the senior clerics in our region. I should say straight off that I have no experience of recruiting for a parish priest job role, and I’ve had no direct involvement in this particular recruitment process. So I have no relevant direct experience. But I do have a career’s worth experience of recruiting for senior positions in th...