{"id":21173,"date":"2014-03-22T10:45:55","date_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21173"},"modified":"2014-03-22T10:50:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-22T15:50:27","slug":"average-sunday-attendance-in-the-church-of-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/average-sunday-attendance-in-the-church-of-england\/","title":{"rendered":"Average Sunday attendance in the Church of England"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The Church of England attracts fewer than 800,000 worshippers to its churches on a typical Sunday, according to new estimates yesterday.<\/p>\n

Numbers in the pews have fallen to less than half the levels of the 1960s, the count showed.<\/p>\n

The signs of continuing decline in support for the CofE follow census evidence of a widespread fall in allegiance to Christianity, with numbers calling themselves Christian dropping by more than four million in a decade.<\/p>\n

The Church’s figure for ‘usual Sunday attendance’, the method used since the 1930s to measure congregations, found CofE churches had 795,800 worshippers on Sundays in 2012. The numbers were 9,000 down on the previous year.<\/p>\n

They indicate that repeated efforts by the Church to modernise its services and its image – through a series of modern language rewrites of its prayer book, attempts by its leaders to appeal to supposed public concern with poverty, and efforts to make its government more efficient – have not succeeded in drawing young people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The statistics upon which this article is based can be found here<\/a>. Here is the graph of \u201cusual Sunday attendance\u201d:<\/p>\n

\"CofE<\/a><\/p>\n

I must admit, the decline is not as precipitous as I had expected; not nearly as severe as in North American Anglicanism<\/a>. The Anglican Church of Canada, presumably to save itself the embarrassment, has not published detailed attendance figures since 2001<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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