Churchgoing in London up 7% Since 2002

12/12/07

Regular attendance at London’s churches has risen 7% in the last five years, according to new official Church of England figures.

The Diocese of London’s ‘Electoral Roll’, the official count of the number of registered, regular attendees in the London Diocese’s 479 churches, shows significant increases in churchgoing across the capital, since the last survey in 2002.

In 2002, the Roll, which logs only registered, baptised adults regularly attending a parish and so provides a conservative estimate of attendance, stood at 59,063. The latest survey shows that the overall figure of registered churchgoers has now risen to 63,302 across the Diocese of London as a whole.

The Diocese of London’s 10 fastest growing churches: