{"id":139420,"date":"2025-09-02T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139420"},"modified":"2025-09-02T18:50:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T22:50:25","slug":"c-of-e-cathedral-statistics-show-continued-growth-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139420","title":{"rendered":"(C of E) Cathedral statistics show continued growth in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Church of England\u2019s&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-08\/cathedralstatistics2024.pdf\">latest cathedral statistics<\/a>&nbsp;show continued growth in 2024, with weekly attendance rising to 31,900, an increase of\u202feleven per cent compared to 2023. The rise was driven particularly by midweek services, which saw a 15 per cent increase in adult attendance and a 16 per cent increase in child attendance, although still lower than the pre-pandemic figure.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Easter services attracted 50,200 worshippers, a 12 per cent increase year-on-year, while Holy Week attendance reached 90,200. However, Christmas attendance dipped slightly to 121,100, down three per cent from 2023, and Advent services saw a similar decline.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Visitor numbers continued to climb, reaching 9.87 million in 2024 &#8211; surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time. Cathedrals also hosted 6,000 public and civic events, including 370 graduation ceremonies, with a total attendance of 1.74 million.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Musical life in cathedrals flourished, with 2,120 choristers and lay clerks (adult professional singers), and 2,070 voluntary choir members meaning figures are now\u202fabove\u202fpre-pandemic levels. The total number of cathedral choirs also reached a record high of 207.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media\/press-releases\/cathedral-statistics-show-continued-growth-2024\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: <br>The Church of England\u2019s latest cathedral statistics show continued growth in 2024, with weekly attendance rising to 31,900, an increase of\u202feleven per cent compared to 2023.<br><br>&quot;By most measures, attendance, participation, and engagement were higher in 2024 than in\u2026<\/p>&mdash; English Cathedrals (@engcathedrals) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/engcathedrals\/status\/1961329387820691506?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 29, 2025<\/a><\/blockquote> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England\u2019s&nbsp;latest cathedral statistics&nbsp;show continued growth in 2024, with weekly attendance rising to 31,900, an increase of\u202feleven per cent compared to 2023. The rise was driven particularly by midweek services, which saw a 15 per cent increase in<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=139420\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[324,199,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-liturgy-music-worship","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=139420"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139424,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139420\/revisions\/139424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=139420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=139420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=139420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}