Rector

ROCHESTER, NY

Posted Jul 29, 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