{"id":46529,"date":"2014-10-24T15:31:43","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_tablet_r_catholic_population_stable_while_anglican_numbers_drop\/"},"modified":"2014-10-24T15:31:43","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T15:31:43","slug":"the_tablet_r_catholic_population_stable_while_anglican_numbers_drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46529","title":{"rendered":"(The Tablet) R Catholic population stable while Anglican numbers drop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of British people identifying themselves as Anglican has halved in the last 50 years, while the proportion of Roman Catholics has remained largely steady, according to new data.<\/p>\n<p>The percentage of self-identified Anglicans in Britain has fallen by half since 1963, according to figures released this week by the British Election Study in the run-up to next year\u2019s general election. This year 31.1 per cent of respondents were Anglican compared to 64.5 per cent in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>A spokeswoman for the Church of England said that it was active across the country, carrying our weddings, baptisms and funerals, and was host to vital community activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetablet.co.uk\/news\/1313\/0\/catholic-population-stable-while-anglican-numbers-drop\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The proportion of British people identifying themselves as Anglican has halved in the last 50 years, while the proportion of Roman Catholics has remained largely steady, according to new data. The percentage of self-identified Anglicans in Britain has fallen by<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=46529\">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":[36,39,50,42,74,389,199,154,108,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture","category-roman-catholic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46529","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=46529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}