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NOC 2006 Version 1.0

4217 – Other Religious Occupations

This unit group includes brothers, nuns, monks, religious education workers and others who provide support to ministers of religion or to a religious community and who perform certain functions associated with the practice of a religion. They may perform these duties in churches, synagogues, temples or other places of worship or in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons.

Profile

Index of titles Example job titles

  • Animator - spiritual guidance
  • Brother/sister - religion
  • Christian Science nurse - non-medical
  • Christian science practitioner
  • Christian science worker
  • Church worker
  • Deacon
  • Deaconess
  • Exegete
  • Faith healer
  • Gospel worker
  • Hazzan
  • Healer, faith
  • Home mission worker - religion
  • Missionary
  • Mohel
  • Monk
  • Mother superior/religious superior
  • Novice - religion
  • Nun
  • Panthee
  • Pastoral animator
  • Pastoral associate officer - military
  • Postulant
  • Ragi
  • Religious education worker
  • Religious superior - religious community
  • Religious superior/mother superior
  • Salvation Army captain
  • Salvation Army field worker
  • Salvation Army worker
  • Sister/brother - religion
  • Christian science practitioner
  • Deacon
  • Mohel
  • Monk
  • Nun
  • Religious education worker
  • Salvation Army field worker

Main duties

This group performs some or all of the following duties:

  • Religious workers in this unit group perform some or all of the following duties:
    • Assist at services of public worship and religious rites
    • Provide religious education, spiritual guidance and moral support to members of a religious community
    • Administer programs providing food, clothing and shelter.

Employment requirements

  • Requirements range from completion of secondary school education to a university undergraduate degree, depending on the particular occupation and religion.
  • There may be other admittance requirements depending on the particular occupation and religion.

Additional information

    Exclusions

    • Ministers of Religion (4154)

    Breakdown summary

    Broad occupational category
    4 – Occupations in Social Science, Education, Government Service and Religion
    Skill level
    B – Occupations usually require college education or apprenticeship training.
    Major group
    42 – Paraprofessional Occupations in Law, Social Services, Education and Religion
    Minor group
    421 – Paralegals, Social Services Workers and Occupations in Education and Religion, n.e.c.
    Version
    NOC 2006 Version 1.0