Editing Church of England (section)

==Membership==
In 2009, the Church of England estimated that it had approximately 25–26&nbsp;million [[baptised]] members – about 47% of the English population.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gledhill |first1=Ruth |title=Christian asks to be 'de baptised' |url=https://www.thetimes.com/article/christian-asks-to-be-de-baptised-9bzq7mtzs2q |access-date=16 February 2021 |work=[[The Times]] |date=18 March 2009 |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":7">{{cite book|chapter=The representation of religious faiths |title=A House for the Future |publisher=UK Parliament |date=2010 |page=155 |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266078/chap15.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190725104756/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/266078/chap15.pdf |archive-date=25 July 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> This number has remained consistent since 2001 and was cited again in 2013 and 2014.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Coombe |first1=Victoria |title=Baptised Anglicans are now a minority |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1357547/Baptised-Anglicans-are-now-a-minority.html#:~:text=Babies%20born%20to%20two%20Anglican,per%20cent%20of%20the%20population. |access-date=16 February 2021 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=26 September 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Nasralla|first=Shadia|date=21 March 2013|title=Update 1-Former oil executive becomes new head of Anglicans|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/religion-anglicans-idUSL6N0CDEGS20130321|access-date=25 July 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Cullinane |first=Susannah |date=2014-07-14 |title=Church of England to allow female bishops |url=https://www.cnn.com/2014/07/14/world/europe/uk-church-women-bishops/index.html |access-date=2023-03-01 |website=CNN }}</ref> In 2010, the government estimated that there were 24,841,000 baptised members of the Church of England.<ref name=":7" /> According to a 2016 study published by the ''[[Journal of Anglican Studies]]'', the Church of England continued to claim 26 million baptised members, while it also had approximately 1.7 million active baptised members.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Muñoz|first=Daniel|date=May 2016|title=North to South: A Reappraisal of Anglican Communion Membership Figures|journal=[[Journal of Anglican Studies]]|volume=14|issue=1|pages=71–95|doi=10.1017/S1740355315000212|issn=1740-3553|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|first=Ruth |last=Gledhill |date=12 November 2015|title=Anglican membership figures could be out by millions|url=https://www.christiantoday.com/article/anglican-membership-figures-could-be-out-by-millions/70392.htm|access-date=25 July 2021|website=Christian Today}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Gerns |first=Andrew |date=13 November 2015 |title=Exactly how big is the Anglican Communion? |url=https://www.episcopalcafe.com/exactly-how-big-is-the-anglican-communion/ |website=Episcopal Cafe |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415072712/https://www.episcopalcafe.com/exactly-how-big-is-the-anglican-communion/ |archive-date=15 April 2021 |via=Internet Archive}}</ref> In 2018, the [[British Social Attitudes Survey]] found that 14% of Britons, or about 10 million people, self-identified as members of the Church of England; this was called an "unrelenting decline" by a spokesperson for the survey.<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=6 September 2018 |title=Church of England numbers in Britain are at record low - survey |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/world/church-of-england-numbers-in-britain-are-at-record-low-survey-idUSKCN1LM3DI/ |access-date=17 April 2025 |website=Reuters}}</ref> According to David Voas, conducting research in 2001 at the University of Sheffield, the number of baptised members was expected to decline at a rate of 1 million every five years;<ref>{{Cite web |date=2001-09-26 |title=Baptised Anglicans are now a minority |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1357547/Baptised-Anglicans-are-now-a-minority.html |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=The Telegraph |language=en}}</ref> their number was reported to have fallen to 20 million in 2022.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2025-03-31 |title=Archbishop Justin Welby, former head of Anglican Church, admits he was 'wrong' |url=https://international.la-croix.com/religion/archbishop-justin-welby-former-head-of-anglican-church-admits-he-was-wrong |access-date=2025-04-01 |website=La croix international |language=en}}</ref> Research published in 2022 showed that the large number of people baptised in the Church of England is due to the state church's "quasi-ethnic dimension, whereby the large numbers of the English population have been baptized (sic) Anglican, even though they otherwise engage minimally with the church or Christian faith. The C of E’s nominal membership is 24 million, but its...Sunday attendance was a small fraction of that figure."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goodhew |first=David |date=2022-02-22 |title=Is Anglicanism Growing or Dying? New Data |url=https://livingchurch.org/covenant/is-anglicanism-growing-or-dying-new-data/#:~:text=Since%202015%20the%20Communion%20has,size%20it%20was%20in%201970. |access-date=2025-04-21 |website=The Living Church |language=en-US}}</ref>

Due to the Church of England's status as the [[state religion|established]] church, in general, anyone may be married, have their children baptised or their funeral held in their local [[Church of England parish church|parish church]], regardless of whether they are baptised or regular churchgoers.<ref>See the pages linked from the [http://www.cofe.anglican.org/lifeevents/ Life Events page on the Church of England website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101122050046/http://www.cofe.anglican.org/lifeevents/ |date=22 November 2010}}</ref>

Between 1890 and 2001, [[church attendance|churchgoing]] in the United Kingdom declined steadily.<ref>{{cite book |first=Peter J. |last=Bowler |title=Reconciling science and religion: the debate in early-twentieth-century Britain |publisher=University of Chicago Press |date=2001 |page=194}}</ref> In the years 1968 to 1999, Anglican Sunday church attendances almost halved, from 3.5 percent of the population to 1.9 per cent.<ref>{{cite book |first=Robin |last=Gill |title=The Empty Church Revisited |publisher=Ashgate Publishing |date=2003 |page=161}}</ref> By 2014, Sunday church attendances had declined further to 1.4 per cent of the population.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12095251/Church-of-England-attendance-plunges-to-record-low.html |title=Church of England attendance plunges to record low |date=12 January 2016 |work=The Telegraph}}</ref> One study published in 2008 suggested that if current trends continued, Sunday attendances could fall to 350,000 in 2030 and 87,800 in 2050.<ref>Christian Research, ''Religious Trends'' (2008), cited in [[Ruth Gledhill]], "Churchgoing on its knees as Christianity falls out of favour", ''The Times'', 8 May 2008.</ref> The Church of England releases an annual publication, Statistics for Mission, detailing numerous criteria relating to participation with the church. Below is a snapshot of several key metrics from every five years since 2001 (2022 has been used in place of 2021 to avoid the impact of Covid restrictions). Since 2021, Sunday church attendance has increased, although not to pre-pandemic levels.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Church of England weekly service attendance rising, but still below pre-pandemic levels - Premier Christian News {{!}} Headlines, Breaking News, Comment & Analysis |url=https://premierchristian.news/en/news/article/church-of-england-weekly-service-attendance-rising-but-still-below-pre-pandemic-levels |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=premierchristian.news |language=en}}</ref>
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!Category
!2001<ref name="mission-2011">{{Cite web |title=Statistics for Mission 2011 |date=2013 |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-11/statistics-for-mission-2011.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231204104722/https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2017-11/statistics-for-mission-2011.pdf |archive-date=4 December 2023 |publisher=The Church of England Research & Statistics |access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref>
!2006<ref name="mission-2011"/>
!2011<ref name="mission-2016">{{cite web |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/2016StatisticsForMission.pdf |title=Statistics for Mission 2016 |publisher=The Church of England Research & Statistics |date=2017 |access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref>
!2016<ref name="mission-2016"/>
!2022<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/statisticsformission2022.pdf |title=Statistics for Mission 2022 |publisher=The Church of England Research & Statistics |date=2023 |last=Eames |first=Ken |access-date=29 December 2023}}</ref>{{Efn|Using 2022 due to [[COVID-19 pandemic|Covid]] restrictions in 2021}}
!2023<ref>{{Cite web |title=Weekly Church attendance up five per cent in third year of consecutive growth |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/media/press-releases/weekly-church-attendance-five-cent-third-year-consecutive-growth |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=The Church of England |language=en}}</ref>
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|Worshipping Community{{Efn|Attendance of at least once per month, first used after 2012}}
|N/A
|N/A
|N/A
|1,138,800
|984,000
|1,007,000
|-
|All Age Weekly Attendance 
|1,205,000
|1,163,000
|1,050,300
|927,300
|654,000
|693,000
|-
|All Age Sunday Attendance
|1,041,000
|983,000
|858,400
|779,800
|547,000
|574,000
|-
|Easter Attendance
|1,593,000
|1,485,000
|1,378,200
|1,222,700
|861,000
|938,000
|-
|Christmas Attendance
|2,608,000
|2,994,000
|2,641,500
|2,580,000
|1,622,000
|1,961,000
|}