Sponsor a future priest

Walk with them, so they can walk with God’s global family

If you, your family or your parish can raise £42 a month for four years, you can help realise a vocation in a mission diocese and help build a strong and vibrant Church for the future.

In mission dioceses in Africa and Asia, it costs at least £700 a year to train a seminarian (student for the priesthood). Despite the sacrifices made by their families and parish communities, and the seminaries’ efforts to grow their own food, it is a struggle for them to cover the full costs of seminary training.

Missio believes no vocation should be turned away through lack of funds. That’s why the Holy Father asks us to channel help from our supporters in England and Wales to our Church overseas.

Sponsoring as an individual

If you would like to sponsor a seminarian as an individual, please contact us during office hours:

T: 020 7821 9755 E: [email protected]

You can also write to us at: Missio, 23 Eccleston Square, London SW1V 1NU

Sponsoring as a group

Sponsoring a seminarian makes a wonderful parish or community project.

Click here to find out more about our community sponsorship programme>>

How it works

You register – as an individual, a group, or a parish – to sponsor a seminarian in one of our five seminary partner locations: India, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Kenya or Malawi. This means a commitment to raising £500 a year, for four years. That’s £42 a month or £1.37 a day.
Missio receives names of seminarians from our five partners. We then allocate a seminarian to you. You’ll receive the name of a student in the first of his final four years of Theology studies. He will also receive your name and hold you in prayer. You can choose to correspond, if you so wish. Your personal contact information will not be shared, as all correspondence goes via Missio.

'Everybody feels they have a clear purpose both to "pay and pray" for the success of their future priest. Each sponsor feels that this is "their" trainee priest and that they have a divine and specific purpose.'

Leo, Birmingham

Parish sponsorship organiser

The hope you bring

Thanks to the hope you bring through donations and sponsorship, Missio can ensure vocations in mission countries are never turned away because of a lack of support. Here are some of the seminarians you support around the world, with messages of thanks: