Tag: Annual parochial report

Parochial report data sets records, and not in a good way

September 18, 2023 Anglican Watch Leave a comment

The results of the annual parochial for 2022 have been released, and the results are grim. Highlights: Active membership decreased at a record pace of 5.81%, or 88,306 persons, the largest decrease ever. Total active baptized members totalled 1,432,082. The five-year decline in membership grew to 15%. The ten-year decline

Zombie churches and decline: AW predictions about the coming parochial report results

August 1, 2023 Anglican Watch 5 comments

Anglican Watch (AW) has been reviewing data relating to parochial report results, and we are increasingly confident that we have a good feel for the reports coming within the next few weeks. So, we will venture out on a limb and share our predictions for the data and related issues, including

Numbers that matter—on the annual parochial report and missing data

May 26, 2023 Anglican Watch 3 comments

As churches struggle to find footing in what we hope are the waning days of the pandemic, Anglican Watch has been rummaging around the mountains of statistical data from the church. And while there are heaps and piles of data in all directions, we see trends that point to some dangerous omissions

It’s official: The Episcopal church is dying

May 12, 2023 Anglican Watch 9 comments

Reposted from 2021. The past 18 months have been rough, but for the Episcopal Church, things are about to get worse. Specifically, the results of the annual parochial reports are about to come out, and they won’t be pretty. And that’s not the worst of it—folks who left the church

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