More than 80 percent of Anglicans lived in Britain in 1900, in contrast to a mere 1 percent in sub-Saharan Africa–a figure that had risen only to 8 percent by 1970. Now, a majority (55 percent) of the world’s Anglicans live in sub-Saharan Africa. British Anglicans now constitute one-third of the world total, and the Church of England notes that low church participation makes the figure for great Britain deceivingly high.
–World Christian database, research version, May 2008, as cited by Christian Century, July 29, 2008, page 14
The degree to which the Anglican Communion’s structure and hierarchy do not reflect this demographic reality is simply scandalous.
& yet they go trooping off to have tea with the Queen of England, as if this was 1958 and they were still Her Majesty’s loyal subjects in the colonies.