The seminary (presidential address) / Owen Chadwick -- Ecclesiastical hierarchy in the thought of Pseudo-Dionysius / Graham Gould -- Parochial ministry in early Anglo-Saxon England : the role of monastic communities / Sarah Foot -- Orders and rank in the Cathedral of Old Sarum / Diana Greenway -- Priest, deacon and layman, from St Peter Damian to St Francis / Christopher N.L. Brooke -- Vicars choral and chaplains in Northern European cathedrals 1100-1250 / Julia Barrow -- Rivals for ministry? : ordinations of secular and regular clergy in Southern England c.1300-1500 / Virginia Davis -- Careers and disappointments in the late-medieval church : some English evidence / A.K. McHardy -- John Mirk's Instructions for parish priests / David B. Foss. A layman's ministry in the Byzantine church : the life of Athanasios of the Great Meteoron / D.M. Nicol -- 'Eyn mercklich underscheyd' : Catholic reactions to Luther's doctrine of the priesthood of all believers, 1520-25 / David Bagchi -- Calvin's view of the ministry of the church / George Yule -- Richard Hooker on the lawful ministry of bishops and kings / Arthur Stephen McGrade -- Shepherds,sheepdogs, and hirelings : the pastoral ministry in post-reformation England / Patrick Collinson -- Richard Kilby : a study in personal and professional failure / Peter Lake -- Petty Babylons, Godly prophets, petty pastors and little churches : the work of healing Babel / D.J. Lamburn -- 'Reformed pastors' and Bons Curés : the changing role of the parish clergy in early modern Europe / Ian Green. Priest and layman in a minority church : the Roman Catholic Church in the Northern Netherlands 1592-1686 / Mathieu G. Spiertz -- Pastoral office and the general priesthood in the Great Awakening / W.R. Ward -- A description of the qualifications necessary to a gospel minister : Quaker ministry in the eighteenth century / David J. Hall -- Piety among 'the society of people' : the witness of primitive methodist local preachers in the North Midlands 1812-1862 / Wayne J. Johnson -- Ministering to the ministers : the discipline of recalcitrant clergy in the diocese of Lincoln, 1830-1845 / Frances Knight -- 'Not a little holy club' : lay and clerical leadership in Australian Anglican Evangelicalism 1788-1988 / Stuart Piggin. Pastoral perfection : Cardinal Manning and the secular clergy / Peter Doyle -- Principal when pastor : P.T. Forsyth, 1876-1901 / Clyde Binfield -- Fishing for the soul 'nor'ard of the dogger' / John R. Guy -- Ministry to all the people? : the Anglican church in Malaysia / W. John Roxborogh -- A triumph of patience and purposiveness : Linton of Betong / Brian Taylor.