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Ordination Manual: Deacon Packet Submission Portal

If you need to take a break while working on this form, your answers will be saved in your local browser storage, never leaving your computer, so that you can continue your progress from where you left off. However, if you switch computers or browsers or you clear your browser history, your progress will be lost.

Upon your completion of this form, it will be sent to your Commission on Ministry Contact and the diocesan office where it will be added to your file. You will receive a copy of the completed form for your convenience.

Your First Name

Your Last Name

Who is the your Commission on Ministry Contact?

When you select your COM Contact from the dropdown menu to the left, their email address will appear in a text box below their name. Please copy and paste that email address exactly as it appears in the box below so that a copy of your responses can be routed to them.

A certificate from seminary or other program of formation showing your scholastic record in the subjects required by the canons, including an evaluation with recommendation as to your other personal qualifications for ordination [III.6.6.b.4/III.8.6.c.4]

Documentation of field placement completion

Documentation of CPE completion

Copy of Completed Application for Ordination to the Diaconate (Form 6) Submission

Community Organizing Training (if not part of the educational institution's curriculum)

Note: This must be signed by your vestry and rector. It's your responsibility to request this.

Confirmation of Completed Community Organizing Training

Note: This may be completed during postulancy or candidacy

‼️Before you Submit‼️

Please double check that all of the information you have provided is accurate, especially contact information.

This form is built on automations to share and archive information in efficient and effective ways for all persons connected to the COM discernment and ordination processes; however those automations rely on you correctly inputting contact information. Inaccurate information (including as a result of typos!) may delay your process.

Once you have double-checked your information and press submit, a copy of your responses will be sent to you as well as to your COM Contact and the diocesan office.