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What is the study commitment?

Suitable applicants will be required to attend a 12-month course of formal enquiry (Propaedeutec year) to the Permanent Diaconate. Then will follow three or more years of formal instruction and practical training. The wives and families are encouraged to attend the lectures with their husbands.

Deacons must be willing to take part in continuing formation and supervision after ordination.