Clergy: Vacancies
Commons · Question 69759 · Tabled 22 Jul 2025 · Church Commissioners · Official record
Answered 1 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
To ask the hon. Member for Battersea, representing the Church Commissioners, how many 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 the l
Answer
Answered by Marsha De Cordova, 1 Sep 2025
The 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...