Anglican ministry, service, doctrine, and church order.

I serve as an Anglican cleric, with work across preaching, teaching, pastoral care, worship, administration, doctrine, and the ordered life of the Church.

The Reverend Samuel J. Ivey BSc (Hons), MLitt, MPhil

Ministry

Service in the life of the Church

Clerical work is both spiritual and practical: prayer, preaching, teaching, pastoral care, administration, governance, and the quiet labour of helping church institutions work properly.

My ministry is shaped by Scripture, the Anglican tradition, the historic life of the Church, and a concern for faithful teaching, reverent worship, pastoral care, and institutional integrity.

Preaching and teaching

Sermons, Bible teaching, catechesis, theological explanation, and the formation of Christian people through careful attention to Scripture and doctrine.

Pastoral care

Prayer, conversation, visiting, counsel, and the ordinary work of accompanying individuals and families through the joys and difficulties of Christian life.

Worship and liturgy

Leading and assisting in public worship according to the Anglican tradition, with concern for reverence, clarity, continuity, and the formation of the Church.

Governance and administration

Practical and constitutional work relating to church structures, councils, trusts, doctrine, worship, and the institutional responsibilities of Anglican bodies.

Formation

Seabury College in the UK

Forming Seabury College

I led the work with the REC and RES to form Seabury College in the UK, developing a structure for theological education and formation in service of Anglican ministry.

This work reflects a broader concern for the formation of clergy and lay people: not merely the transfer of information, but the cultivation of faithful doctrine, disciplined study, pastoral judgement, and service to the Church.

Doctrine and Order

Anglican doctrine, worship, and church life

I am interested in Anglican doctrine, identity, worship, ecclesiology, and the relationship between church teaching and institutional order. My clerical and theological work often concerns how doctrine, worship, governance, and pastoral life belong together.

Anglican doctrine, identity, worship, and ecclesiology.
The relation between Scripture, tradition, reason, and church authority.
Pastoral theology and ordinary Christian discipleship.
Church order, institutional trust, and ecclesial governance.
The interaction between Christian thought, public life, and modern technical systems.

Responsibilities

Church responsibilities

Current and recent service in the Reformed Episcopal Church, especially in Scotland and the Northern Diocese, ordered around the Church’s worship, doctrine, pastoral care, and common life.

Since February 2026 Diocesan Secretary of the Northern Diocese of the Reformed Episcopal Church, serving the Bishop, clergy, and parishes in the good ordering of the Diocese.

Since October 2025 Co-opted member of the Doctrine and Worship Committee, with particular concern for the Church’s liturgical inheritance, sacramental life, and theological faithfulness.

Since June 2025 Chairman of the Reformed Episcopal Church in Scotland, working to build up its worshipping life, public witness, and ecclesial stability.

Since June 2025 Member of General Council of the Reformed Episcopal Church, contributing to the counsel and governance of the Church in its mission and ministry.

Since June 2025 Member of Central Trust of the Reformed Episcopal Church, assisting in the stewardship of the Church’s temporal goods for the service of its spiritual work.

1 March 2025 Ordained deacon by the Most Rev Dr John Fenwick in Liscard on St David’s Day, to proclaim the Gospel, assist in the Church’s worship, and share in the pastoral care of Christ’s people.

Since June 2024 Contributing to the life of REC100 Europe, with a concern for Apostolic order, reverent worship, and Anglican continuity.

Clerical enquiries

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