Press Release

The Office of the Presiding Bishop

The Evangelical Catholic Church
Post Office Box 20744
Albuquerque New Mexico 87154-0744
Tel:  505-238-7685  Fax:  505-237-0665

Albuquerque New Mexico, November 1, 2005

For Immediate Release

Presiding Bishop Seeks Vocations to Priesthood

Bishop David J. Doyle, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Catholic Church, is seeking qualified men and women as candidates for priesthood within the Evangelical Catholic Church.

The Evangelical Catholic Church has received a number of inquiries from throughout the United States from individuals and groups wishing to have new missions created for them.  In order to do this, the Church needs deacons and priests to serve such missions.

The Evangelical Catholic Church, a validly consecrated reformed and continuing Catholic faith community, is especially interested in dialogue with inactive priests who wish to resume their vocations and with women who have the academic qualifications for ordination.  The Church is also open to dialogue with seminarians who have been formationally orphaned.  Marital Status, Ethnicity, Orientation and Age are not factors in considering applications for formation or incardination.

The Evangelical Catholic Church is canonically prohibited from entering into dialogue with anyone convicted of sexual assault or abuse crimes.

For additional information regarding the vocational program and policies of the Church, please visit our vocational information page at www.evangelicalcatholicchurch.org/vocation.htm

Those interested in discussing their vocational calling may contact the Presiding Bishop at:

The Evangelical Catholic Church
Post Office Box 20744
Albuquerque New Mexico 87154-0744
Tel:  505-238-7685  Fax:  505-237-0665

www.evangelicalcatholicchurch.org

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