Full Time Priest in Charge of Kirkdale Churches

Introduction

Full Time Stipendiary Role of Priest in Charge, Kirkdale Churches

The two parishes of St Athanasius, and St Lawrence with St Paul, held in plurality. This post is initially offered as a 3 year interim post pending potential pastoral reorganisation. 

Kirkdale is a neighbourhood just to the north of Liverpool city centre, bordered to the west by the docks. The neighbourhood has always been a working class area, with some recent regeneration taking place – notably the new Everton stadium. Liverpool is a fabulous place to live and work, with world class sporting and cultural facilities and excellent transport links. In 2024 Liverpool was named as one of the friendliest cities in the world by Conde Nast Traveller, who said:

“Liverpool is now a capital of cool, where vintage shops, art galleries and art venues inject a creative atmosphere into the streets. Stretched along the Mersey’s sweeping shore, Liverpool is a port city bursting with life, as locals here are wildly outgoing and good-humoured, not to mention fond of a great night out.”

This post brings together two parishes with three churches, which together serve c.17,000 people. Statistically, they are two of the most deprived parishes in the Church of England, ranking 19 and 32 out of 12,239 in the CUF statistics. 

his post is initially offered on a three year interim basis pending pastoral reorganisation. In this interim period the churches want to grow closer together and explore, with others in the Deanery, becoming part of a larger single parish through the diocesan Fit for Mission strategy – or otherwise joining together on a more formal basis. This post would therefore suit either someone wishing to offer an intentional interim ministry, or someone who would like to see this period of change through, shaping a new organisational future in which they could potentially have a longer term future.

The congregations and PCCs are excited to be working together in this new way, and are looking forward to the opportunities that this new way of working will bring. Might you be the person they are praying for, who can love and serve this place, lead these churches and the wider Deanery closer together in mission, identify new opportunities for growth and service, and grow the Kingdom of God here?

For more information please contact: 

Ven Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool 

Mob: 07565 521309 or email: miranda.threlfall-holmes@liverpool.anglican.org

Closing date: Monday 18th August 2025

Interviews: Wednesday 17th September 2025

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.