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Research & Statistics
Facts and stats about theChurch of England
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13,000 parishes
16,000 churches (12,500 are of listed heritage)*
Caring for 52 million people across England and Europe
*Currently 15 church buildings are being offered for community use each year
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Average weekly attendance 2009
1.1m people
each week
801k adults each
Sunday
145k children
each Sunday
79k children
mid week
107k adults
mid week
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Christmas and Easter 2009
2,420,000 attendance
1,410,000 attendance
1,020,000 communicants
on Easter Day/Eve
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Occasional offices 2009
138,000 baptisms
6,000 thanksgivin
gs
53,000 marriages
4,000 blessings
177,000 funerals at churches
and crematoria/cemeterie
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25,000 confirmatio
ns
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Church of England Schools 20114,400 schools
780,000 pupils
Primary
schools
205 schools
182,000 pupils
Secondary
schools
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Volunteering
• Over 50,000 people support parish church administration– Based on each PCC requiring a secretary, treasurer and
two church wardens
• Over 100,000 people work with children and young people as volunteers
• Over 10,000 people work as volunteer ministers and a further 8,000 active retired clergy and readers continue to serve the church, alongside a number of volunteer chaplains
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Church of England licensed ministers 2010
Licensed stipendiary clergy 8,501Licensed self-supporting clergy 3,151Chaplains and other ministries 1,598Licensed layworkers and lay Church Army evangelists 289Active retired ordained 5,674Licensed Readers 7,172Readers with permission to officiate and active emeriti 2,713Totals CHURCH OF ENGLAND 29,092
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Stipendiary clergy projections20
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0620
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0820
0920
1020
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Women
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Age profiles of stipendiary clergy
Under
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Age profiles of licensed ministers 2010
FT Stipendiary women
FT Stipendiary men
Self supporting women
Self supporting men
Licensed readers women
Licensed readers men
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
12%
12%
2%
4%
2%
2%
72%
64%
42%
42%
44%
41%
16%
24%
56%
54%
53%
57%
Under 40
40 - 59 years
60 and over
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Diocesan clergy 2010: gender
Senior staff men3%
Senior staff women<1%
Stipendiary men55%
Stipendiary women
15%
SSM men13%
SSM women14%
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Paid Chaplains 2010 Armed Forces men14%
Armed Forces women
<1%
Prison chaplains men8%
Prison chaplains women
5%
Hospital chaplains men16%
Hospital chaplains women11%
Education chap-lains men
20%
Education chap-lains women
4%
Other chaplains men18%
Other chaplains women4%
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Clergy ethnicity, 2010Asian or Asian British1%
Black or Black British1%
Chinese or other ethnic group<1%
Dual heritage 1%
White 97%
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Clergy ethnicity 2005 and 2010
Under 29
30-39 40-49 50-59 60-69 70 and over
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
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Age in years
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Ordination of women resolutions and petitions (1 Jan 2011)
6% resolution A
7% resolution B
3% petition
for extended episcopal ministry
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Church of England core congregations 2007
Two in three
attending
adults
are female
The average age of core
congregation members is 61yrs
• 95% of core congregation members responding to the survey attended once a month or more frequently
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Church of England core congregations 2007
18-24
25-34
35-44
45-54
55-64
65 and over
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FemaleMale
Persons, 1000s
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Giving 1999 to 2009
1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 20090
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1000
Unrestricted re-curring
Unrestricted one-off
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Restricted one-off
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Weekly average tax efficient planned giving per subscriber
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Growth in income and expenditure
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
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IncomeRecurring One off
ExpenditureCapital Recurring