Clergy Deployment

Congregations in Transition

Following is a list of positions for priests in Diocese of Mississippi congregations.  All are at various stages of active search processes. All of these congregations are deserving of clergy who will provide caring, able and gifted priestly leadership. 

Churches seeking rectors or interim rectors, full or part-time -

Redeemer, Biloxi
Redeemer, Brookhaven
Calvary, Cleveland
Ascension, Hattiesburg
Trinity, Natchez
St. Paul’s, Meridian
Resurrection, Starkville
Holy Trinity, Vicksburg
Church of the Nativity, Water Valley

Churches seeking supply clergy -

Good Shepherd, Columbus
Christ Church, Holly Springs
All Saints, Jackson
St. Christopher’s, Jackson
St. Mark’s, Jackson
St. Matthew’s, Kosciusko
Calvary, Michigan City
St. James, Port Gibson
Church of the Good Shepherd, Terry
Holy Trinity, Vicksburg
Church of the Nativity, Water Valley

 Available Chaplaincies -

Canterbury: Mississippi State University
Oxford: The University of Mississippi

 updated 02/23/2026

 Deployment Information

We welcome your interest in discerning a possible call to the Episcopal Diocese of Mississippi. We look forward to hearing from you. The Diocese of Mississippi has a number of clergy openings and we are seeking qualified and compatible clergy to serve in these congregations. 

Most of our congregations are in dynamic, medium-sized cities. Most are pastoral-to-transitional sized congregations. However, we also have a variety of congregations and settings. If you are a retired priest and would like to serve a congregation part-time, we would also be interested in hearing from you.

The Diocese of Mississippi is a welcoming community with a history of gifted witness by our bishops along with committed clergy and lay leadership. We sees ourself as One Church in Mission: Inviting, Transforming and Reconciling. We seek clergy who embrace and embody this focus on mission. We do not see ourselves driven by issues, but as being driven by relationship: to God, to one another, and to those we invite and welcome into the fellowship of Christ's body, the Church.

We are seeking clergy who are bridge-builders; those who are able to find common ground in the Gospel with all sorts and conditions of people. We seek to be a church which looks outward, not focusing on internal issues to the detriment of the mission of the church.

If you believe that you are called to serve in this diocese, please contact us. It would be very helpful to receive the following:

 - An up-to-date OTM Portfolio

 - An up-to-date resume

As a routine part of our process, we will undertake preliminary reference checking on any potential candidate before sending the individual's name and material forward to a search committee. They include, but may not be limited to, contacting the Transition Minister and Bishop in the diocese of canonical residence. Full background checks are done on all finalists for positions in the Diocese of Mississippi.

Please communicate with our diocesan transition minister, the Reverend Canon Gary Meade, by e-mail. Include the requested documents as attachments to your e-mail.