Written Question·Church Commissioners·UIN 69760
Clergy: Vacancies
Tabled: 22 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025
Question
Andrew Rosindell
Reform UK — Romford
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how many rural parishes have a vacancy for (a) an incumbency and (b) a priest-in-charge; and how many (i) incumbent and (ii) priest-in-charge vacancies there have been in each of
Answer
Marsha De CordovaThe National Church Institutions do not hold information centrally about the number of vacancies in urban or rural parishes; the deployment of clergy to benefices is a matter for diocesan bishops and their leadership teams.Data on benefice vacancies are o...
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