The Archbishop, who has been in post since 2013, said the decline in church attendance
was something that “personally, I count as failure”.
The total average attendance for Sunday services across the Church of England in 2013
was 1,009,100. By 2019, that figure had dropped to 854,00 – a decline of just over 15 percent.
Several letters suggesting the cost of dioceses, the overbearing pressure put on parishes to merge and the unelected and unaccountable oligarchy is what is driving the doom loop that is…
“[Priests] are good, giving people, and they need to be properly paid and they need to be properly housed because they are the bedrock of our Christian faith. They are the people that are going around talking to parishioners, and they can learn a great deal of what is actually needed by the man in the street. Unfortunately, the Church of England is reducing their number and of course in turn that is going to reduce the churches, and they will be sold. So it is something that really needs to be supported.”
“The value of the parish system comes from the fact that it can reach out to all sections of the community across England. Yet, as many of your correspondents have…
Archbishop Welby supported Rev. Vennells for the position of the Bishop of London shortly after she had overseen the disaster at the Post Office despite her lack of parish experience….
“This is beyond managed decline, it is driven decline.”
“And if we’re going to promise to ‘Save the parish’, let’s use those ‘limiting factors’ as our banners: ‘a building and a stipend and long, costly college-based training for every…