Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Episcopal Church in Decline? Denomination Loses Nearly 50K Members, Closes 69 Parishes

From Christian Post-

The Episcopal Church continues to experience losses in both church attendance and membership, according to recently released numbers from the denomination's Office of the General Convention.

From 2013 to 2014, active baptized members in domestic dioceses went from 1.866 million to 1.817 million, representing a loss of nearly 50,000 members.

The statistics reveal that in 2014 that average Sunday attendance was a little over 600,000 in domestic dioceses, down from approximately 623,000 in 2013.

More here-

http://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopal-church-loses-50k-members-closes-69-parishes-147583/

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