Full-time Rector Solway Plain

Full-time Rector

Solway Plain Parish

Is God calling you follow in the footsteps of St Patrick and St Kentigern on the glorious Solway Plain?

The Solway Plain is a place of ancient and distinguished spiritual history. A ministry founded by St Patrick, St Kentigern and the monks of Holme Cultram Abbey is being renewed by the Solway Mission Community, including the development of a new monastic community. Are you called to play your part in this remarkable mission story?

The seven historic parishes of the Solway Plain have now been united into a single parish with streamlined governance, enabling you to focus on your missional and priestly call.

We are seeking a Rector who will help us to:

* Develop fellowship within each of the churches of the parish;

* Connect in new and deeper ways with our communities;

* Reach younger people;

* Develop our online presence and outreach through digital media;

* Build links with the wider Mission Community, working ecumenically and collaboratively to further develop new ways of being church and imaginative forms of mission;

* Develop a pastoral care team; and

* Deepen our discipleship.

This is a full-time stipendiary post (£34,950 from April 2026)

For an informal conversation please contact:

The Ven. Stewart Fyfe, Archdeacon of West Cumberland

Archdeacon.West@CarlisleDiocese.orgukT: 07552 428772

Closing date for applications: 6 May 2026

Provisional interview date: 8 June 2026