England (RNS) Attendance figures released by the Church of England show that Sunday worship attendance continues its downward slide and now stands at about half of what it was 45 years ago.
The report from the Archbishops’ Council Research and Statistics Department, released Friday (March 21), shows that on average in 2012, 800,000 adults, or about 2 percent of the adult population, attended church on Sunday. That’s down from 1.6 million Sunday worshippers in 1968.
Yes, and at the same time, the population of Britain (most of which is in England) jumps by a couple of million each year. So the population grows and the attendance at CofE drops.
A slow slide into irrelevance.