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Episcopal Church Releases 2021 Membership and Attendance Numbers. It’s Catastrophic

With a median congregational age of 69 and a commitment to social justice caramels, the Episcopal Church is dying, both figuratively and literally.

According to their newly-released 2021 Parochial Report, average Sunday attendance is down 36% since last year, from 547,000 people in 2019, 483,000 in 2020 to just 312,000 in 2021. Given the denomination claims 1.6 million baptized members, only 19% of its claimed members are attending services regularly.

According to the denomination’s own projections, attendance will decline by 98% by 2041. Episcopal priestess Rev. Dwight Zscheile has lamented the losses noting, “At this rate, there will be no one in worship by around 2050 in the entire denomination.”

The apostate denomination took an enormous hit in 2020, losing nearly 12% of its congregation members in just one year. According to reports by the Office of the General Convention, they’ve dropped 20% since 2016 and 25% since 2012.

That particular report revealed more startling information, such as 10% of their congregations have 20 people or less, 5% have 10 people or less, and the average congregation is around 50 people, the overwhelming number of them senior citizens. One diocese for example, the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Michigan, only has 385 members spread across 21 churches, and it just disappeared.

Unsurprisingly, Episcopalian giving was up 3% from the year before. This is because Episcopalians have historically been an affluent denomination, being funded by the hordes of men and women who die and then leave the church in their will as a beneficiary to their estate. They are being kept running by the deaths of their deceived denizens, but not much longer.

With a Median Congregational Age of 69, The Episcopal Church is Literally Dying

(Religioninpublic) Last November, I wrote a post for Religion in Public with the title, “The Data is Clear – Episcopalians are in Trouble.” In it, I used survey data to paint a portrait of a denomination that was on the brink of collapse. One of the most troubling things about the future of the Episcopal Church is that the average member is incredibly old. The median age of an Episcopalian in 2019 was sixty-nine years old. With life expectancy around 80, we can easily expect at least a third of the current membership of the denomination to be gone in the next fifteen or twenty years. That’s problematic when membership has already been plummeting for decades.

But, I came across some data in the last few weeks that I just had to look at in more depth. Before I get into the graphs I have to give some serious kudos to the data team that works for the denomination. I have looked at the websites of all kinds of Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian and Catholic traditions over the last few years. The Episcopalians blow them all out of the water in terms of accessibility and ease of use. Don’t believe me? Well, they have an interactive dashboard of all their churches in the United States. You can sort based on a map, church size, or amount of offering. It’s incredible and can be accessed at this link.

Let’s get down to it, though. How many people actually attend an Episcopal church on an average Sunday? I grabbed a PDF of their membership reports from here and did some quick analysis of the national trends.

In 2009, 725,000 people attended an Episcopal church on…

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Editor’s Note. This article was written by Ryan P. Burge and published at Religion in Public. Title changed by Protestia.

Editor’s Note 2. Good. This denomination is thoroughly depraved and ceased long being Christain decades ago, with perhaps only a fraction of a percent of real believers left.