The Church of England's November 10, 2023 press release on its Statistics for Mission attendance data, reporting average weekly attendance for all ages of 854,000 in 2019 before the COVID-19 pandemic, a fall to 605,000 in 2021, and a recovery to 654,000 in 2022, an increase of nearly 50,000 that the release calls the second consecutive year of growth after the pandemic low.
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The Church of England's own press release on its Statistics for Mission attendance return, the established annual national count every diocese submits; a self-reported institutional figure rather than an outside audit, the same standing already given to the Church's later Statistics for Mission press release already on this axis (source 53011), which this file pairs with for an earlier point in the same series. Citation
PublisherThe Church of England
Publication Year2023
URLhttps://www.churchofengland.org/media/press-releases/church-attendance-rises-second-year-running
Source Typechurch body
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