Clergy

Overview

The Bishop of Norwich, in collaboration with the Bishop of Thetford, seeks an Archdeacon of Norfolk to serve an archdeaconry comprising market towns and rural and coastal communities in south and east Norfolk, and the Waveney part of Suffolk.

We are looking for a prayerful priest who will contribute warmly to our life together, who will relish seeking solutions, identifying opportunities, working to mend divisions, and blowing on embers, and who shows:

• collaborative and trusted leadership
• strong pastoral and missional commitment
• strategic thinking and organisational awareness
• gifted communication and public representative abilities
• personal resilience, integrity and safeguarding commitment
• practical competence and leadership enabling skills

The Bishop of Norwich encourages applications from diverse backgrounds as a way of discerning God’s will and calling.

Further details on Pathways ceseofnorwich.org/about/clergy-vacancies/

Closing date: 4:00 pm Friday 26 June 2026. Applications sent to (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). Interviews will be held in Norwich on 15 and 16 July 2026.