ACNA Statistics

From VirtueOnline:

Well just how does the fledgling ANGLICAN CHURCH IN NORTH AMERICA (ACNA) shape up compared to other provinces?

According to a report put out by ACNA leaders, the Average Sunday attendance (ASA) for the ACNA's 693 congregations is 81,311, with an estimated membership in excess of 100,000. By way of comparison, the Church in Wales, whose Archbishop Dr Barry Morgan has vowed to fight recognition of the ACNA with "every fibre" of his being, has a total membership of 70,353 and the Scottish Episcopal Church 53,553.

The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop has repeatedly said that breakaway groups represent only a small percentage of Episcopalians, but recent ASA figures for TEC reveal only 727,000 practising Episcopalians on any given Sunday.

The breakdown is as follows: The Anglican Mission in the Americas (AMiA), under the oversight of Archbishop Emmanuel Kolini of Rwanda, reports an ASA of 21,600 in 180 congregations. The Convocation of Anglicans in North America (CANA), under the oversight of Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria, reports that its 69 congregations have an ASA of 9,828. Uganda's 51 American parishes report an ASA of 7,000, while Kenya and the Southern Cone's American 55 American parishes have an ASA of 10,000.

Four dioceses that left The Episcopal Church and are under the temporary oversight of Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone: Fort Worth, Pittsburgh, Quincy and San Joaquin have 163 congregations with an ASA of 16,483. This does not include those congregations that have opted to remain with the national Episcopal Church.

The Anglican Network in Canada (ANiC) reports that its 24 congregations have an ASA of 3,400, while the Reformed Episcopal Church --- an evangelical group that seceded from the Episcopal Church in the 19th century - reports that its 150 parishes have an ASA of 13,000.

"Based on a firm Sunday attendance average of 81,311 people, it is reasonable to very conservatively project that more than 100,000 Anglicans in North America are active members of a congregation of the proposed province," the ACNA concluded.