NOC 2021 · 42204 · TEER 2
Religion workers
Unit group 42204 of the National Occupational Classification, 2021 Version 1.0.
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What this group covers
Religion workers include 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; in institutions such as schools, hospitals and prisons; or in industrial facilities, corporate enterprises; or they may work in private practice.
Example job titles
As Statistics Canada publishes them. Yours may be worded differently and still belong here.
- animator - spiritual guidance
- brother/sister - religion
- cantor
- Christian Science nurse - non-medical
- Christian science practitioner
- Christian science worker
- church worker
- corporate intercessor
- deacon
- deaconess
- exegete
- faith healer
- gospel worker
- hazzan
- home mission worker - religion
- missionary
- mohel
- monk
- mother superior/religious superior
- novice - religion
- nun
- panthee
- pastoral animator
- postulant
- ragi
- religious education worker
- religious superior - religious community
- religious superior/mother superior
- Salvation Army captain
- Salvation Army field worker
- Salvation Army worker
- sister/brother - religion
Source: Statistics Canada — National Occupational Classification 2021 V1.0. Data current as of 13 August 2026. NOC 2021 Version 1.0. The classification is versioned rather than dated — IRCC moved to it in November 2022, and a new version would be a new classification rather than an update.