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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.

Example Titles

Christian science practitioner
Salvation Army field worker
cantor
deacon
mohel
monk
nun
religious education worker

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Main 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.

Classified elsewhere

• Ministers of Religion (4154)