In January 2017, St Hild College was created by the merger of The Yorkshire Ministry Course and St Barnabas Theological Centre.
The Yorkshire Ministry Course was preceded by The Northern Ordination Course (NOC), which had been training ordinands in the region since 1980. In 1996 NOC began working with the Community and College of the Resurrection at Mirfield. In 2008 this work was refocused on the Yorkshire area under the new name of the Yorkshire Ministry Course (YMC).
In 2013, St Barnabas Theological Centre was launched in Sheffield. Initially, St Barnabas worked in partnership with YMC to deliver Anglican ordination training, Baptist ministerial formation and independent theological study in a new format. The merger in 2017 sought to build on the strengths of both YMC and St Barnabas in order to create a diverse and mission-focused college to strengthen Christian ministry in Yorkshire and the surrounding region.
The college has continued to grow since then, including developing a first of its kind Centre for Church Planting and more recently a Centre for Baptist Ministry, becoming the 6th Baptist training college in Great Britain. In 2023 St Hild entered a partnership with Lincoln Diocese and the Lincoln Centre was begun.
We remain committed to serving the church in our region and are developing a number of new pathways and programmes in response to the ministry priorities of our partners.