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The Scottish Episcopal Institute forms those preparing for a variety of authorised ministries in the Scottish Episcopal Church, lay and ordained, shaping vibrant missional ministers for today’s world.

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The Scottish Episcopal Institute supports ordinands, students for lay ministries, and those engaged in deepening their Christian faith in our churches. It does this through programmes of formation and learning that aim to encourage baptised people to respond to the call of God in their lives. No two students are…Continue reading “The Scottish Episcopal Institute welcomes you”

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The SEI offers a number of resources for students and the wider Scottish Episcopal Church. Publications The Scottish Episcopal Institute…

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Community Life

SEI is a school for ministry, not a divinity school (though students are taught by excellent academic specialists in every…

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Study

The Scottish Episcopal Institute trains candidates for ordained ministry as priests (incumbent and assistant), vocational deacons and Lay Readers. SEI…

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Donors in May

30 May 202330 May 2023

Warm thanks this month are extended to the congregations of St Adrian, Gullane and St Baldred, North Berwick (Diocese of Edinburgh) for the generous donation to SEI’s Training Fund following…

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Fiduciary care, fellowship and fire-raising!

29 May 202329 May 2023

The Revd Dr Lesley Penny, Curate at St Cuthbert’s Colinton (Diocese of Edinburgh), reflects upon the recent Curates’ Residential Weekend at the Conforti Institute, Coatbridge, organised by the Provincial IME2…

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Creativity, innovation, and the role of the Deacon

22 May 202322 May 2023

In the revised text for the Ordination of Deacons currently under discussion in the SEC, the Bishop’s Charge reads thus: In the name of the Church, deacons are sent to…

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A truly celebratory weekend!

15 May 202315 May 2023

The final Residential Weekend of the 2022-23 academic year was full of moments of celebration as, in time-honoured ways, the continuing student and staff community bade farewell to the Leavers…

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Vocations Sunday round-up

11 May 202311 May 2023

Every year on Vocations Sunday, the Fourth Sunday of Easter, SEI ordinands and candidates for Lay Readership offer to go and preach across the Province. This year 11 of them…

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Master of Arts in Worship and Liturgical Studies at the Scottish Episcopal Institute

8 May 20238 May 2023

The Scottish Episcopal Institute (SEI) is offering an exciting new MA in Worship and Liturgical Studies from September 2023! It is aimed at those engaged in pastoral ministry who wish…

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2023 Bursary winner announced!

1 May 202330 April 2023

The winner of the 2023 Alastair Haggart Bursary is the Very Revd Sarah Murray, Provost of Inverness Cathedral, Diocese of Moray, Ross and Caithness. The Bursary Committee unanimously selected Sarah’s…

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Donors in April

28 April 202328 April 2023

Warm thanks this month are extended to the congregation of Christ Church Morningside (Diocese of Edinburgh) for its generous donation to SEI’s Training Fund following the institution of the new…

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Placements 4

24 April 202324 April 2023

The first three accounts of placements have detailed those which have been spread over several months. But other students, whether because of the exigencies of geography or the competing scheduling…

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Placements 3

17 April 202319 April 2023

In this third placement post of the series, the focus is upon those candidating (ultimately) for the priesthood who spend their third year of formation in a year-long placement with…

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Placements 2

11 April 20237 April 2023

The first account in this series of posts detailed the kinds of placement that those preparing to serve as distinctive Deacons undertake. Lay Reader candidates likewise do placements that are…

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Placements 1

3 April 20233 April 2023

During April, reports arrive on the desks of SEI staff from those who have been supervising students on placement over the past six months or so. In the first year,…

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