{"id":30664,"date":"2024-05-01T15:14:46","date_gmt":"2024-05-01T19:14:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=30664"},"modified":"2024-05-01T16:20:11","modified_gmt":"2024-05-01T20:20:11","slug":"anglican-church-of-canada-decline-accelerates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-church-of-canada-decline-accelerates\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican Church of Canada decline accelerates"},"content":{"rendered":"

Numerically, of course, not theologically; theologically, it has nowhere left to go \u2013 surely.<\/p>\n

In 2017, the ACoC published these numbers<\/a>, which led statistics officer Rev Dr. Neil Elliot to predict extinction by 2040:<\/p>\n

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As of 2022, the number looked like this:<\/p>\n

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There has been a 40% decrease in average Sunday attendance since 2001, with a\u00a0 accelerated decline of 26% between 2019 and 2022. The good news is funerals have not declined.<\/p>\n

Read more about it here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Sharp drop during pandemic: stats officer<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic saw a significant decline in church attendance, marking a \u201cradical discontinuity\u201d even with previous downward trends, the Anglican Church of Canada\u2019s statistics officer says.<\/p>\n

Canon Neil Elliot presented data from 2022 diocesan returns in a January report sent to bishops and diocesan executive officers based on parish statistics. The statistics officer said he did not collect numbers in 2020 and 2021 since COVID-19 shut down churches for much of that time.<\/p>\n

The figures show a decline on almost all fronts from 2019 to 2022, including a 12 per cent decrease in the total number on parish rolls, 26 per cent decrease in average Sunday attendance, and 17 per cent decrease in regular identifiable givers. The biggest drops came in the number of people attending services on major holy days: a 45 per cent decline in Easter attendance, 37 per cent for Pentecost and 47 per cent for Christmas.<\/p>\n

Declines were also seen in the number of pastoral services, with 25 per cent fewer baptisms, 13 per cent fewer confirmations and 10 per cent fewer marriages\u2014the only exception being funerals, which saw a very small increase.<\/p>\n

\u201cAttendance has been hit,\u201d Elliot said. \u201cI think that\u2019s a really clear thing.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Numerically, of course, not theologically; theologically, it has nowhere left to go \u2013 surely. In 2017, the ACoC published these numbers, which led statistics officer Rev Dr. Neil Elliot to predict extinction by 2040: As of 2022, the number looked … Continue reading →<\/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":12,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664","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=30664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}