{"id":54604,"date":"2016-06-02T15:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/church_of_england_releases_new_ministry_stats\/"},"modified":"2016-06-02T15:00:37","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T15:00:37","slug":"church_of_england_releases_new_ministry_stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54604","title":{"rendered":"Church of England releases new ministry stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has released new Ministry Statistics giving trends in ministry over the period between 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The statistics show that total ordained ministry over the last 4 years has remained stable, with over 20,000 ordained people serving the church in various roles.<\/p>\n<p>The number of stipendiary clergy has fallen from 8,300 to 8,000 between 2012 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of stipendiary clergy who are women increased from 24% in 2012 to 27% in 2015. And 19% of senior staff in 2015 were women, up from 12% in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2016\/05\/church-of-england-releases-new-ministry-stats.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Church of England has released new Ministry Statistics giving trends in ministry over the period between 2012 and 2015. The statistics show that total ordained ministry over the last 4 years has remained stable, with over 20,000 ordained people<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54604\">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":[36,48,39,50,74,389,199,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-anglican-provinces","category-church-of-england-coe","category-england-uk","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54604","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=54604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}