In 2024, The 81st General Convention of The Episcopal Church approved Resolution A135, encouraging each diocese to consider paying all active, non-stipendiary clergy, of any order under the age of 72, a minimum of $25 per month.
Prior to this, in 2021, ECCT adopted a resolution requiring all vocational deacons serving in Connecticut to be paid $25 (twenty-five) a month.
Learn more about Deacon Compensation from the Association of Episcopal Deacons.
ECCT’s Deacon Compensation Resolution (2021:2)
2021, Resolution #2 – Clergy Compensation (Adopted as amended)
RESOLVED, that the 237th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Connecticut adopt the following: (See the Minimum Salary Schedule in the Resolution Appendices on page 32 of this Journal.)
That in resolution #2, Clergy Compensation, the table entitled “MINIMUM COMPENSATION FORMULA FOR PART-TIME CLERGY” be amended to add a row for Deacons (Vocational) Serving in Connecticut, and that each Episcopal organization with a serving deacon pay $25 (twenty-five) a month to their deacon as remuneration, and that each such organization also make the required contribution to the Church Pension Fund for the benefit of the deacon.