{"id":20623,"date":"2013-11-07T15:52:40","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T19:52:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=20623"},"modified":"2013-11-07T16:08:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T20:08:54","slug":"the-decline-of-the-episcopal-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-decline-of-the-episcopal-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The decline of The Episcopal Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/anglicanink.com\/article\/episcopal-church-down-24-ten-years\">here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Episcopal Church down 24% in ten years<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Baptized membership in the Episcopal Church of the USA declined by 29,679 in 2012 to 2,066,710, the Episcopal Church reported on 31 October 2013.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics released by national church showed Average Sunday Attendance declined steadily across [t]he church as well 2.6 per cent in 2012, with 679,923 Episcopalians in church on Sundays.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>At least TEC publishes up to date statistics, which is more than can be said for the Anglican Church of Canada whose <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anglican.ca\/help\/faq\/number-of-anglicans\/\" target=\"_blank\">last published number<\/a> was in 2007. Then there\u00a0 were 545,957 people on parish rolls.<\/p>\n<p>If the ratio of church attendees to \u201cmembership\u201d is the same in Canada as it is in the US, there would have been 179,613 people attending ACoC churches in 2007; fewer today, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From here: Episcopal Church down 24% in ten years Baptized membership in the Episcopal Church of the USA declined by 29,679 in 2012 to 2,066,710, the Episcopal Church reported on 31 October 2013. Statistics released by national church showed Average &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-decline-of-the-episcopal-church\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":15,"footnotes":""},"categories":[302],"tags":[2032,2262],"class_list":["post-20623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tec","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-tec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20623\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}