From The Church Times-OFFICIAL statistics issued last week suggest that attendance at C of E churches may have levelled out after decades of decline.
A report by the Archbishops' Council, Statistics for Mission 2012, released on Friday last week, suggests that, on an average Sunday in 2012 (the latest year with available data) about 859,000 people attended a C of E church. This compares with 901,000 in 2003.
The average weekly attendance for the Church was higher, at 1.05 million people. About one in five of those who attend a C of E service weekly are reckoned not to attend on a Sunday.
Three months ago, a C of E report on church growth, From Anecdote to Evidence (News, 31 January), suggested that there had been nine per cent decline in average weekly attendance over the decade to 2010.
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http://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2014/28-march/news/uk/graphs-have-levelled-off,-say-anglican-statisticians
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