The Church of England attracts fewer than 800,000 worshippers to its churches on a typical Sunday, according to new estimates yesterday.
Numbers in the pews have fallen to less than half the levels of the 1960s, the count showed.
The signs of continuing decline in support for the CofE follow census evidence of a widespread fall in allegiance to Christianity, with numbers calling themselves Christian dropping by more than four million in a decade.
England desperately needs an authentic Anglican witness, either from within CofE, or if that isn’t happening, then from outside it.