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Associate Priest of St Brides and Christ Church (Team Vicar Designate in Hope Parish)
Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/61196/10935
Introduction
St Bride’s and Christ Church are both located in the popular and vibrant area to the immediate south of Liverpool City Centre, from the buzzing café culture of Lark Lane to the Georgian Quarter.
St Bride’s provides a home for those who are theologically progressive, with creative worship and a commitment to questioning and discussion. St Bride’s also hosts the original Open Table congregation, led by LML Warren Bohan. Christ Church is proud to be the first Gold Eco-Church in the diocese. Worship at Christ Church is a mix of the traditional and the contemporary. Both churches share a commitment to inclusion expressed in the Inclusive Church statement, to social justice, and to the arts.
This full-time role will initially primarily be based at St Bride’s church, with a transition over the next two years to taking pastoral responsibility for both St Bride’s and Christ Church Toxteth park. (There is currently a part-time vicar Christ Church, and the successful applicant will be integrated over the next 2.5 years to take on the role following the retirement of the present incumbent, subject to the pastoral reorganisation to Hope Parish going ahead). Both St Brides and Christ Church are working towards becoming part of Hope Parish Liverpool, and this role will be subject to changes during this time. As this pastoral reorganisation is still under consultation, this role is currently offered on a 3 year interim basis. The aspiration is that the appointee would later be appointed as a Team Vicar within the reorganised Hope Parish, subject to the pastoral reorganisation taking place as planned, and subject to the approval of the then-constituted Patronage Board. The post will be accountable to the team rector of St Luke in the City in the first instance, who is also Team Rector Designate for Hope Parish Liverpool.
Ven Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool
Mob: 07565 521309 or email: miranda.threlfall-holmes@liverpool.anglican.org
Closing date: 6th December
We are continuing our work to actively increase the diversity of those working in the diocese and in pursuit of that we are using anonymous shortlisting.
