ROCHESTER, NY
Posted Aug 31, 2026
Job Title
Rector
Name of church or organization
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Job Location
ROCHESTER, NY
Job Description
St. Paul’s seeks a Rector with excellent communication, preaching and pastoral care skills who will effectively engage the congregation to reach out to younger people and the surrounding community, while simultaneously valuing the traditions important to long-term members. Our new Rector will value our music program and our inspiring worship facilities, and support what our members hold dear while serving and inspiring younger families to be active members.

We seek an energetic leader with the capacity to cast a vision and lead the church in the realization of that vision, and with spiritual strength, creativity, sense of direction, and ambition to lead us in exploring solutions and ways to meet divergent goals that enables St. Paul’s to grow in God’s service. This is achievable with the strong support from the congregation, adequate resources, and divine providence.

Our next Rector will be the spiritual leader of an inclusive congregation in an urban-suburban church with a long, distinguished history. St. Paul’s is located in a neighborhood with impressive historic homes, churches of several denominations, and structures built in an earlier era. Its cathedral-style architecture houses worship services that incorporate superb choral music enhanced by an historic E.M. Skinner organ.

St. Paul’s is blessed with a substantial, well-managed endowment. Its expansive outreach program is one of the largest in our diocese and involves many of our parishioners.

Type of Commitment
Full Time
Does this job pay?
Yes
Application Process
Please email the following application materials to the Rev. Dr. Julianne Buenting, Acting Director of Ministry
(transitions@episcopaldioceseofrochester.org):
1) A letter of interest addressed to the Search Committee
2) A current resume or C.V.
3) A pdf of current your Vocation Hub Candidate Profile, including responses to the following Narrative Questions: #10. What theological convictions shape your ministry? #13. What is a ministry risk you’ve taken and what came of it? #14. How do you discern and adapt to the changing needs of your community?
Application Deadline
09/23/2026
Website
www.stpaulsec.org