{"id":65196,"date":"2017-11-09T07:58:49","date_gmt":"2017-11-09T12:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65196"},"modified":"2017-11-09T05:59:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-09T10:59:36","slug":"church-of-england-cathedrals-attract-record-numbers-at-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65196","title":{"rendered":"Church of England Cathedrals attract record numbers at Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas attendance at services in cathedrals last year reached its highest figure since records began, statistics published today show. A one year rise of 5%, meant that 131,000 people came to cathedrals to worship last Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<\/p>\n<p>Increased attendances were also recorded at services in Advent with 635,000 coming to worship during the busy pre-Christmas build-up. Average weekly attendances at services on a Sunday also increased to 18,700.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, over 10 million people visited cathedrals and Westminster Abbey with half donating or paying for entry.<\/p>\n<p>The Rt Revd John Inge, Bishop of Worcester, and lead bishop for cathedrals and church buildings, said: &#8220;Behind these figures lie stories of worship, learning, exploring faith and spirituality and encountering God at times of joy and despair.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-centre\/news\/2017\/11\/cathedrals-attract-record-numbers-at-christmas.aspx\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cathedrals&#39; enduring appeal: 635,000 in Advent and 131,000 at Christmas came to worship last year. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NSOUh8I9xh\">https:\/\/t.co\/NSOUh8I9xh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/GodWithUs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#GodWithUs<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lFuRWrD1Fj\">pic.twitter.com\/lFuRWrD1Fj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Church of England (@c_of_e) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/c_of_e\/status\/928559107786895360?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 9, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christmas attendance at services in cathedrals last year reached its highest figure since records began, statistics published today show. A one year rise of 5%, meant that 131,000 people came to cathedrals to worship last Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=65196\">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":[389,199,183,184,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-church-of-england-coe","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\/65196","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=65196"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65198,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65196\/revisions\/65198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}