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Forming people for ministry

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

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

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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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To the Journey

14 August 202314 August 2023
As the SEI community begins to prepare for its Orientation Week (Monday 28 August to Sunday 3 September), Tosh Lynch, a first-year ordinand from the Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway…
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Board of Examiners 2023

7 August 202316 August 2023
SEI’s Board of Examiners met on Tuesday 1 August 2023 via Zoom to consider the progression of its students and to make recommendations for awards to the Durham University (Overarching)…
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Prayer Tent at the Tall Ship Races

31 July 202316 August 2023
During The Tall Ship Races organised by Sail Training International, Wednesday 26 through Saturday 29 July at Lerwick, third-year ordinand Helen Randall, participated in a line-up of offerings from the…
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Tearfund’s Young Theologians

24 July 202316 August 2023
Third-year ordinand Laura Symon, from the Diocese of Moray, Ross & Caithness writes:  ‘On Monday 3 July, I had the absolute joy of attending the first online gathering of Tearfund’s…
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Seeing God in a Peat Fire

17 July 202316 August 2023
Camayo Hyde, a second-year candidate for Lay Readership, enjoyed a holiday with her family on the Isle of Lewis from Saturday 1 July through Saturday 8 July. Cam writes: This…
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Bishop’s House, Iona

10 July 202316 August 2023
Recently, Ross Stirling-Young, a second-year, mixed-mode ordinand, returned from a retreat on the Isle of Iona. Ross spent four days (Tuesday 20 June through Friday 23 June) at Bishop’s House…
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Address on St John the Baptist’s proclamation of the truth

4 July 202316 August 2023
On Friday 23 June, the Vigil of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, the Revd Dr Michael Hull offered an address during Evensong at All Saints’ Episcopal Church, St…
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Donors in June

29 June 202329 June 2023
At the close of this academic year SEI thanks most warmly all those who have donated to the SEI Training Fund so generously over the past twelve months: to those…

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Upcoming events

Eleventh Annual SEI Lecture
The Eleventh Annual SEI Lecture will be offered by the Rev Dr Anna-Claar Thomasson-Rosingh, Director of Contextual Formation, on Thursday 29 October 2026, at 5pm, in Glasgow.

The ten previous SEI Lectures may be found here.

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