Resources for the Diaconate

Introduction

The following is offered simply as a list of resources I have found or have been suggested. I make no guarantees as to the quality of a given resource, nor even if the resource actually exists after I added the link to it.

Please suggest resources by submitting this form.

As I find them, I’ll add links to diocesan web pages about clergy and diaconal discernment and formation.

ACNA Discernment, Credentialing, and Formation

Dioceses

• Missionary Diocese of All Saints
• The Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces and Chaplaincy
• Anglican Network in Canada
• Diocese of the Carolinas
  • The Ordination Process
• Diocese of Cascadia
• Anglican Diocese of Christ Our Hope
  • Leadership Development
• Diocese of Fort Worth
• Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes
• Gulf Atlantic Diocese
  • Ordination
• International Diocese
• Anglican Diocese of the Living Word
  • Under “General Resources”, a video titled “The ordination process — a message from Bishop Julian”
• Diocese of the Mid-Atlantic
  • Ordination Information & Materials
• Anglican Diocese in New England
  • Outline of Our Ordination Process
• Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh
  • Ordination Materials
• Anglican Diocese of the Rocky Mountains
  • Clergy Formation
  • The College of Deacons
• Diocese of Quincy
  • Saint Benedict School for Ministry
• Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others
  • The Path of Discernment to Holy Orders
• Diocese of San Joaquin
  • Under “Vocations” on Diocesan Resources
• Anglican Diocese of the South
  • Deacons Page
  • Ordination
• Anglican Diocese of South Carolina
  • Vocational Diaconate
• Anglican Diocese of the Southwest
• Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest
• Diocese of Western Anglicans
• Anglican Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast
  • Clergy Formation
• Reformed Episcopal Church
  • Diocese of the Central States
  • Diocese of Mid-America, with the Convocation of the West and Western Canada
  • Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, with the Convocation of Eastern Canada
  • Diocese of the Southeast
  • Seminaries
    • Cranmer Theological House, Dallas & Houston, Texas
    • Cummins Memorial Theological Seminary, Summerville, South Carolina
    • Reformed Episcopal Seminary, Blue Bell, Pennsylvania

Other Groups

• Next Generation Leadership Initiative: Approved Anglican Seminaries

Various Articles and Papers

• Andrews, Keith. “What is the Diaconate?”. August 2020.
• Finnell, Val W. “Theology of the Diaconate”. 1 June 2011.
• Jansma, Henry. “The Deacon’s Mass: The Case for a Reappraisal”. Eastertide, 2015.
• Moniz, Erin. “Not ‘Just’ a Deacon”. Anglican Compass, 3 October 2019.

Websites

• The Church of England
  • Deacon Stories
• The Seabury Society
  • Vocational Diaconate