A Special Day: Ordination Ceremony of the Anglican Church of Korea

By Kim Hillel Yunkyoung

As some of you might know, my formal job is working as a priest at an Anglican Church. My second job is as a photographer. If you ask me which is more valuable or more preferred, I could not choose one over the other. I will never drop either of them as long as I live.

As a priest, it is always a privilege to be part of the ordination ceremony. During the ceremony, we priests all gather together and put our hands on each other’s shoulders as a symbol of unity. Therefore, if you are a priest, you would never want to miss out on participating in this part of the ordination. However, every time I participate in the ceremony, the photographer in me feels like something is missing: “It would be so much nicer for the one being ordained if I were able to take pictures of their most precious moment,” that photographer muses. Luckily, my diocese was recently in the process of renewing the diocesan website and needed some good photographs for its pages. Of course, there was one very eager photographer to take those pictures – me. I am so glad to be able to share with you these photographs of the ordination ceremony. I hope you all enjoy this rare event.

The Photographer
Kim Hillel Yunkyoung is a priest in the Anglican Church and also a portrait photographer.
More of his pictures can be found at Instagram @hillelkim.