Variant of NOC 2011 - Analysis by skill level

• b - NOC skill level B: occupations usually require college education or apprenticeship training
• 42 - Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services
• 421 - Paraprofessional occupations in legal, social, community and education services

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.

• Illustrative example(s)

  • brother/sister - religion
  • cantor
  • Christian science practitioner
  • deacon
  • missionary
  • monk
  • nun
  • pastoral animator
  • religious education worker
  • Salvation Army field worker

  All examples

• Exclusion(s)

  • Professional occupations in religion (4154)

• Main 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.