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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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Principal at Inverness Cathedral for Trinity Sunday

27 May 20248 June 2024

SEI’s Principal, Prof Michael Hull, was honoured to preside and preach at the Holy Eucharist on Trinity Sunday, 26 May at 11am at Inverness Cathedral. The Rev Canon Dr John…

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Graduates!

15 May 202415 May 2024

The final residential weekend of the 2023–24 academic year was full of moments of celebration including Solemn Evensong led by the Rev Canon Dr Alasdair Coles and members of his…

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IME2 Annual Residential

7 May 20247 May 2024

The Initial Ministerial Education Phase 2 cohort held their annual residential at St Mary’s Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth, from Friday 3 through Sunday 5 May. The IME2 cohort are those in…

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A Day with N.T. Wright

29 April 202429 April 2024

The Rev Dr Lesley Penny, Curate-in-Charge at St John’s, Selkirk, and St Peter’s, Galashiels, participated in ‘Jesus, the Spirit, and the Hope of the World: A Day with N.T. Wright’…

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A Divinity Ordinand!

22 April 202422 April 2024

Ordinand Karen McClain Kiefer will be graduated in June with a PhD in Divinity from the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts at the University of St Andrews. Karen…

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St Thomas Aquinas on the intimacy of God, an SEI Study series

8 April 202415 April 2024

‘O Lord, thou hast searched me out and known me’: St Thomas Aquinas on the intimacy of God Christians in former days sometimes seem to have believed only in a…

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Principal at St Paul’s Cathedral, Dundee

25 March 20248 June 2024

SEI’s Principal, Prof Michael Hull, was honoured to preach at the Sung Eucharist on Sunday 17 March at 10.30 at St Paul’s Scottish Episcopal Cathedral, Dundee. It was Passion Sunday,…

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We adore Thee, O Christ, and we praise Thee!

11 March 202411 March 2024

Friday 8 to Sunday 10 March was SEI’s fourth residential weekend at St Mary’s Monastery, Kinnoull, Perth, for the Fourth Sunday in Lent. Lent IV is also called ‘Laetare’ Sunday,…

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SEI Teaching-Staff Residential 2024

4 March 20244 March 2024

SEI’s Tutors and Associate Tutors gathered for their annual overnight residential (Monday 26 February & Tuesday 27 February 2024) at the Conforti Centre, Coatbridge. All told, it was a gathering…

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Roman Holiday

26 February 202423 February 2024

Eilidh Proudfoot, a third-year ordinand, studying for her MDiv from the School of Divinity, New College, of the University of Edinburgh, visited the Eternal City last week with a cohort…

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IME2 Gatherings Online

20 February 202420 February 2024

The Rev Godwin Chimara, Assistant Curate at St John the Evangelist and St James the Less, Aberdeen, writes: Curates, Vocational Deacons and Lay Readers within the first three years of…

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Institute Council in Action

12 February 202412 February 2024

The Rev Canon Elaine C Garman, a Member of the Institute Council, which governs SEI, sums up the Council’s meeting of Monday 22 January 2024: A new year, and new…

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