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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
- 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
- Brother/sister - religion
- Christian science practitioner
- Deacon
- Missionary
- Monk
- Nun
- Pastoral animator
- Religious education worker
- Salvation Army field worker
Main duties
This group performs some or all of the following duties:
The following is a summary of main duties for some occupations in this unit group:
- 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 employment requirements depending on the particular occupation and religion.
Additional information
Exclusions
- Professional occupations in religion (4154)
Breakdown summary
- Broad occupational category
- 4 – Occupations in education, law and social, community and government services
- Skill level
- B – Occupations usually require college education or apprenticeship training.
- Major group
- 42 – Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services
- Minor group
- 421 – Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services
- Version
- NOC 2011 Version 1.0