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Priest in Charge Maidstone All Saints with St Phillip & St Stephen Tovil
Vacancy Reference cofe/TP/93486/8923
The job has expired.
Number of Positions:
1
Contract Type:
Office Holder
Salary/Stipend:
Location:
Maidstone, Kent
Closing Date:
10/08/2025
Vacancy Category:
Clergy: Incumbent / Priest in Charge
Business Unit:
Diocese of Canterbury
Organizational Unit:
Church Commissioners
Introduction
Priest in Charge - Maidstone All Saints w St Phillip & St Stephen Tovil
The benefice of Maidstone All Saints w St Phillip & St Stephen Tovil is a united parish seeking a skilled and experienced priest, familiar with leading a complex civic church. We are a people ready to be led by the Spirit into a new and exciting chapter, placing All Saints at the heart of a bustling county town and working across the benefice to create disciples of Jesus to the 20,000 people who live and work here. We are seeking a Priest for the benefice who:
- Emphasises prayer, and makes time to reflect and pursue their own discipleship
- Recognises that worship is the beating heart of our common life
- Will encourage all of us to be disciples of Jesus
- Is creative and imaginative in ministry
- Can navigate and lead change sensitively and embraces conflict maturely and skilfully
- Discern, encourage and enable everyone to use their gifts
- Is a strategic thinker and can identify priorities for the benefice
- Understands the complexities of a civic church as part of a united parish
- Will actively play their part in the Deanery and Diocese.
Interviews: 11th September
Parish and vicarage visits: 9th or 10th September
