Welcome Seminarians

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We are glad you have logged on and it is our hope that we can be of help to you in your education, training, formation and placement as a priest in the Episcopal Church.

Scholarships

If you are a Postulant or Candidate for Holy Orders, you may be eligible to apply for a scholarship grant from SIM.  Click on the Scholarship application tab for an explanation of eligibility requirements and an application form.  If you are a student in one of the ten official Episcopal seminaries, your application must be submitted to SIM through the Financial Aid Office of your seminary and is due in that office by March 1^st of each year.  If you are an Episcopal student, have been named a Postulant or a Candidate and are enrolled full-time — with your bishop’s permission — in a Master of Divinity Program at an accredited seminary of another denomination or at a non-denominational seminary, you may be eligible for our Plan B.  That application is also available through our website.  Applications for Plan B are submitted directly by each applicant, do not require the signature of your Financial Aid Officer and may be submitted at any time in the course of the year.

Connections through SIMnet

We also invite you to sign up for SIMnet, a network for recipients and alumni of SIM.  SIMnet is a unique opportunity to share, learn and kibitz with seminarians from other seminaries.  SIMnet offers you the opportunity to learn from others in a variety of settings about not just managing, but enriching your relationships with your bishop, COM, Standing Committee, prospective employers and other clergy and lay leaders who are critical to your vocational sojourn.

The Latin word for what are often called the “Last Rites” of the church is Viaticum.  Translated, it means “with you on the way.”  In offering SIMnet as a resource to you, it is just one means by which we at the Society for the Increase of the Ministry seeks to be with you on your way to a faithful, fulfilling and effective ordained ministry with, in and for the Episcopal Church.