The Chaplain of Oxford University's Worcester College will be presenting the prizes at the Prayer Book Society’s annual Cranmer Awards Competition.
On February 29 the Chaplain will visit Worcester in the West Midlands for the annual contest.
The Cranmer Awards Competition is for pupils aged between 11 and 18.
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The pupils from schools and churches select, learn and speak from memory prayers and readings from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.
The pupils will compete in regional heats where they compete locally for a place in the national final.
At the finals the winners share £1,000 in prize money and receive a certificate with a copy of the Book of Common Prayer.
The event started 31 years ago, and now hundreds of pupils from parish churches, private schools and state schools enter the regional heats each year and recite a prayer from memory.
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The Rev Dr Tess Kuin Lawton, a former schoolteacher who was ordained in 2007 and appointed as chaplain of Worcester College ten years later, is enthusiastic about the value of the annual contest organised by the society.
She said: "I think that the future of the Book of Common Prayer is, in large part, in the hearts of these young people."
She added: "There is a rhythm and beauty to the language which they respond to and come to love."
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