CPEI Credentialing
Maintaining your credential with Clinical Pastoral Education International reflects your commitment to professional excellence, ethical practice, and continued growth in spiritual care. Credentialed members complete annual renewal requirements to remain in good standing.
Annual renewal helps ensure that CPEI credentialed members continue to demonstrate professional engagement, ethical accountability, and active participation in chaplaincy, ministry, education, or related spiritual care practice.
Remain in good standing with your ecclesiastical or religious endorsing body and report any significant changes to CPEI.
Participate in ongoing professional development related to spiritual care, ethics, chaplaincy, ministry practice, supervision, or leadership.
Continue serving in chaplaincy, ministry, spiritual care, education, supervision, volunteer work, leadership, or another related professional setting.
Maintain professional and ethical standards, including appropriate boundaries, confidentiality, accountability, and responsible spiritual care practice.
Use this checklist to prepare for annual renewal and maintain active credential status.
Maintain ecclesiastical endorsement or equivalent recognition, if required for your credential.
Complete continuing education or professional development activities.
Remain actively engaged in chaplaincy, ministry, teaching, supervision, leadership, or related service.
Follow the CPEI Code of Ethics and maintain professional standards.
Pay applicable annual certification or renewal fees.
Provide documentation if requested by CPEI.
Renewal encourages credentialed members to continue learning, reflecting, and developing their practice.
Maintaining credentials supports accountability to professional standards, ethical expectations, and the public trust.
Active renewal helps support the quality of spiritual care provided by CPEI credentialed members.
If annual renewal is not completed, you may not represent yourself as credentialed by CPEI. Additional steps, documentation, review, or fees may be required for reinstatement. Extended lapses may require reapplication.
For questions about annual renewal, credential status, documentation, or reinstatement, contact the CPEI Credentialing Committee.
Review renewal expectations, complete annual requirements, and contact the Credentialing Committee with any questions about your credential status.
CPEI credentialed members are responsible for completing annual continuing education and maintaining active credential status.
Minimum requirement: 1.0 IACET CEUs or 10 contact hours per year.
Chaplains are also responsible for payment of annual dues.
Minimum requirement: 1.5 IACET CEUs or 15 contact hours per year.
Supervisor-Educators and Training Supervisor-Educators are also expected to participate in Staff and Faculty meetings and pay annual dues.
Continuing education may include a broad range of learning activities that support professional growth, ethical practice, spiritual care, chaplaincy, supervision, or related ministry practice.
Degree-credit courses, non-degree career training, seminars, workshops, and classroom lectures.
Conference presentations, chaplaincy education, supervisor-educator learning, and professional development programs.
Self-directed study, experiential learning, printed texts or workbooks, webinars, teleseminars, and recorded materials.
Credentialed members are expected to participate in at least one credentialing review annually. This service supports the integrity of CPEI credentialing and helps members remain connected to the competencies and standards of professional chaplaincy and supervisory education.
Reviewing candidates helps members remain grounded in the core competencies of professional practice.
Supervisor-Educators and Training Supervisor-Educators benefit from reflecting on their own teaching, strengths, and growing edges.
Review panels create opportunities for connection with CPEI members and candidates across diverse settings.
Credentialed members are responsible for remaining in good standing with CPEI requirements. Certification may be affected if a member does not complete annual continuing education, maintain required endorsement, pay annual certification fees, or abide by CPEI’s Code of Professional Ethics.