You can find the webpage there, and the diocesan profile (15 page pdf) here. Of special interest is the Diocesan fast facts page:
Diocesan Baptized membership: 12,645; in 1998, this number was 16,852
Average Sunday attendance: 4,328
Parishes: 66
With clergy full time: 26
With clergy part-time: 30
With supply clergy: 10
Clergy:
Priests: 83 (including parochial, non-parochial, retired, and licensed but not canonically resident)
Deacons: 28 canonically resident, with 17 active
Parish staffing statistics
Fifteen of our parishes share clergy. In 2014, six of our parishes will move from full time clergy to
part-time. About half of our parishes have half-time or quarter-time clergy.
Christian Formation in our parishes
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will guide you with my eye upon you.”
Psalm 32:8
Thirty-seven of our parishes offer church school.Twenty-three of our parishes have a mid-week
Eucharist.
Twelve of our parishes reported persons under the age of 16 being confirmed.
In 1998, 52 of our parishes reported having some form of Adult Education; in 2013, 34 did.
This is an extremely emblematic posting. I suspect it represents the situation for roughly 50% of TEC dioceses.
66 parishes with approximately 65 attendees on average per Sunday.
This explains why “half of our parishes have half-time or quarter-time clergy.” 15 “share clergy.”
By my math, that leaves 18 parishes in the entire diocese able to afford a priest.
This is the new TEC.
Financially, it is unsustainable. One might hope that the #1 topic in HOB and comparable circles of influence is: how to adjust and simply survive/hold on.
Following up on #1, by my calculation, Central Pennsylvania was almost the perfect median diocese as of 2012: there were 48 dioceses with smaller ASAs and 50 with larger. In 2012, C PA’s ASA was 4580. They now show it as 4328, a further loss of 5.5% in 2013. In 2002 it was 6330. They are off 32% since 2002.
The Gamaliel principle at work.
Statmann would love this.
Tell them Bob Duncan will be available shortly. He is just finishing up a larger assignment, will have time on his hands (although he does have a local gig going as well), and he knows the area!