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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.

The Scottish Episcopal Institute welcomes you

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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The Rev Dr Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh is the Scottish Episcopal Institute’s new Director of Studies!

25 October 202325 October 2023

Currently, Anna-Claar is serving as a Chaplain at the Dungavel Immigration Removal Centre, where she is responsible for the spiritual and pastoral care for the men and women detained to…

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SEI at St John’s Cathedral, Oban

23 October 202323 October 2023

Prof Hull was honoured to preach at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 22 October at 10.15 at St John’s Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Oban, one of the two cathedrals in the…

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SEI at St Peter’s, Stornoway

17 October 202331 October 2023

Prof Hull was honoured to preside and preach at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 15 October at 11am at St Peter’s Scottish Episcopal Church, Stornoway, on the Isle of Lewis.…

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Royal Army Chaplains’ Department

13 October 20239 October 2023

Anthony Clapham was deaconed on Saturday 7 October by the Rt Rev Kevin Pearson at Holy Trinity Church, Kilmarnock, where he’ll serve his Title as Assistant Curate. Just prior to…

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Inaugural Lecture and Installation of the Pantonian Professor of Divinity

11 October 202325 June 2024

The Rev Dr Michael Hull was appointed the Pantonian Professor of Divinity by the College of Bishops of the Scottish Episcopal Church in July 2023. The Professorship dates to the early…

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Diakonia at Home and Abroad

9 October 20239 October 2023

The Rev Dr Valerie Cameron is a distinctive deacon serving at St Mary’s Church, Dalkeith and St Leonard’s Church, Lasswade/Bonnyrigg in the Diocese of Edinburgh. In early September, Val had…

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Faith and Order

18 September 202318 September 2023

The Revd Dr Michael Hull was appointed the Principal of SEI by the General Synod of the Scottish Episcopal Church, and, thereafter, in a separate appointment, the Pantonian Professor of…

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The Pastoral Care of Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary People

11 September 202311 September 2023

Ross Stirling-Young, a third-year ordinand in the Scottish Episcopal Institute, recently attended a conference entitled ‘The Pastoral Care of Transgender, Intersex and Non-Binary People’ offered by York St John University…

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Orientation Week 2023

5 September 202315 May 2024

The SEI community gathered at St Mary’s Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth, from Monday 28 August to Sunday 3 September for its Orientation Week 2023. Orientation Week marks the start of the academic…

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Ember Card 2023

1 September 20231 September 2023

The card lists the names of those students who have just completed their first three years of ministerial formation (IME1) and will be ordained Deacon at Michaelmas. It is circulated…

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An End and a Beginning

28 August 202327 August 2023

Godwin Chimara, God willing, is to be ordained a deacon for Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney at St John the Evangelist Church, Aberdeen, at noon on Saturday 23 September 2023. He…

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Avenues of Pilgrimage

21 August 202321 August 2023

Ferdinand von Prodnzynski has recently finished his initial ministerial training with SEI and is preparing for his deaconing in the Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney in Autumn. Reflecting on his…

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