To The Right Reverend Chilton Knudsen, Bishop of Maine:

I hereby make application to be admitted as a Candidate for Holy Orders

I am a member in good standing of the following Congregation:

______________________________________ at _____________________, Maine

Name of Sponsoring Presbyter __________________________________________

I have been a Postulant since ___________________________________________.

I have completed ______ % of my course of study at _________________________.

I am currently enrolled in or have completed the following Clinical Pastoral Education Program (or approved equivalent): _________________________________________.

II. Attachments

1. Evaluation and recommendation of the DFP Coordinator as to the Postulant’s personal qualifications for the exercise of Holy Orders.
2. Endorsement letter from the Member of the Clergy in Charge of the Congregation
3. Endorsement letter by the Vestry/Bishop’s Committee. (See Appendix E.)
4. An essay on what the affirmation required by Article VIII of the Constitution means to you including with some specificity how you are now more (or less) able to make the affirmation than you were two years ago.

Date _____________ ___________________________________

Signature of Applicant