Church of England Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Impact of COVID-19 pandemic === The [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United Kingdom|COVID-19 pandemic]] had a sizeable effect on church attendance, with attendance in 2020 and 2021 dropping well below that of 2019. By 2022, the first full year without substantial restrictions related to the pandemic, numbers were still notably down on pre-pandemic participation. According to the 2022 release of "Statistics for Mission" by the church, the median size of each church's "Worshipping Community" (those who attend in person or online at least as regularly as once a month) now stands at 37 people, with average weekly attendance having declined from 34 to 25; while Easter and Christmas services have seen falls from 51 to 38 and 80 to 56 individuals respectively. Examples of wider declines across the whole church include:<ref>{{Cite web |title=Statistics for Missions 2022 |url=https://www.churchofengland.org/sites/default/files/2023-11/statisticsformission2022.pdf |access-date=27 November 2023 |website=Church of England}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" |+ ! !Estimated change, 2019 to 2020 !Estimated change, 2019 to 2021 !Estimated change, 2019 to 2022 |- |Worshipping Community | -7% | -13% | -12% |- |All age average weekly attendance (October) | -60% | -29% | -23% |- |All age average Sunday attendance (October) | -53% | -28% | -23% |- |Easter attendance |N/A | -56% | -27% |- |Christmas attendance | -79% | -58% | -30% |} Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page