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"If a way to the better there be, it exacts a full look at the worst." ---Thomas Hardy
See Towards the Final Sprint of the Decade of Evangelism, an update of this report two years later, in 1999
According to official parochial reports published by Executive Council in the Episcopal Church Annual, communicants in ECUSA declined by 6.7% over the first five years of the Decade of Evangelism.
1990 1995
166,973 147,625 -11.6% Prv1
226,185 195,046 -13.8% Prv2
270,242 253,512 -6.2% Prv3
359,152 357,630 -0.4% Prv4
182,496 154,670 -15.2% Prv5
82,835 75,146 -9.3% Prv6
195,987 196,749 0.4% Prv7
214,370 204,382 -4.7% Prv8
1,698,240 1,584,760 06.7% ECUSA
As I have noted Quean Lutibelle's Book of Numbers, http://newark.rutgers.edu/~lcrew/grow_die.html#caveat, what seems to be growth often actually is decline when one factors in population movements to the sunbelt.
From 1990-1995, dioceses differed enormously in percent lost:
Only 26 (of 99) dioceses experienced any growth at all:
1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1990 vs 1995
4,202 4,488 4,615 4,526 4,613 4,889 16.3% Utah
6,990 7,566 6,871 6,966 7,087 8,131 16.3% Hawaii
9,964 10,231 10,427 10,648 10,925 11,372 14.1% Rio Grand
10,118 9,679 10,295 10,201 10,620 11,322 11.9% W North Caroli
3,605 3,396 4,042 4,041 3,813 4,007 11.2% Nevada
19,354 19,165 19,105 20,455 20,363 21,468 10.9% Florida
9,154 9,558 9,709 9,892 10,241 10,042 9.7% New Hampshire
10,069 10,868 10,941 10,857 10,498 10,976 9.0% Maine
21,515 21,988 22,864 23,008 23,378 23,316 8.4% Alabama
9,436 8,666 8,230 9,737 9,878 10,114 7.2% Tennessee
3,367 3,594 3,534 3,481 3,481 3,580 6.3% Idaho
12,564 12,017 12,074 12,760 13,617 13,349 6.2% East Carolina
18,418 18,869 18,521 18,207 18,889 19,462 5.7% South Carolina
55,244 53,857 54,720 55,855 55,078 58,320 5.6% Texas
15,517 14,650 15,578 13,534 15,016 16,303 5.1% Oregon
32,909 32,913 33,196 32,750 33,837 34,243 4.1% North Carolina
26,878 26,950 28,114 28,330 27,119 27,915 3.9% Washington
15,155 14,812 15,301 15,267 15,718 15,733 3.8% C Gulf Coast
12,529 12,254 12,784 13,201 13,085 12,982 3.6% Georgia
52,926 56,627 54,819 54,705 54,985 54,723 3.4% Virginia
10,771 9,979 10,526 10,455 10,050 10,985 2.0% Milwaukee
14,655 14,734 14,594 13,885 14,333 14,828 1.2% Oklahoma
5,330 5,232 5,159 4,933 5,237 5,387 1.1% Springfield
4,244 4,257 4,060 3,964 4,299 4,285 1.0% Alaska
7,857 7,721 7,873 7,551 7,668 7,910 0.7% Kentucy
33,877 33,664 34,333 34,897 32,648 33,974 0.3% Atlanta
27,519 25,900 26,098 26,412 27,566 27,524 0.0% Central Florida
8,817 9,245 9,335 8,759 9,744 8,784 -0.4% West Tennessee
7,317 6,757 7,292 7,035 7,221 7,274 -0.6% Northwest Texas
21,461 21,595 22,016 21,572 22,237 21,324 -0.6% West Texas
9,955 9,807 10,068 9,892 9,900 9,876 -0.8% Soutwestern Va
26,832 27,078 27,523 26,479 26,760 26,557 -1.0% Dallas
51,569 47,673 48,940 48,766 50,057 51,027 -1.1% Los Angeles
14,328 14,107 12,953 13,565 13,623 14,144 -1.3% W Mass
6,027 6,433 6,394 6,282 5,914 5,926 -1.7% Vermont
19,098 18,955 18,582 18,119 18,224 18,766 -1.7% Upper SC
16,844 15,696 14,355 14,393 14,985 16,430 -2.5% Albany
16,382 15,928 16,302 16,987 16,541 15,979 -2.5% Mississippi
10,429 9,871 10,016 10,067 9,611 10,047 -3.7% West Missouri
26,146 24,764 24,348 24,660 24,771 25,111 -4.0% Southern Va
21,305 20,383 21,798 19,842 20,523 20,455 -4.0% Minnesota
30,843 30,464 31,187 29,408 29,575 29,540 -4.2% Maryland
14,106 13,209 14,641 14,499 13,453 13,406 -5.0% Fort Worth
4,543 4,776 4,335 4,556 4,479 4,309 -5.2% Montana
6,792 6,772 6,777 6,535 6,709 6,435 -5.3% Lexington
4,895 4,982 4,823 4,679 4,797 4,631 -5.4% NW PA
10,339 10,923 11,026 9,403 9,698 9,776 -5.4% Arkansas
13,949 14,506 14,411 14,142 13,575 13,183 -5.5% Louisiana
22,677 22,153 22,753 21,492 22,813 21,406 -5.6% Olympia
18,808 18,947 18,585 18,765 17,971 17,744 -5.7% Southern Ohio
11,804 11,694 11,629 11,591 11,239 11,128 -5.7% Kansas
23,355 23,043 22,793 21,070 21,288 21,828 -6.5% Colorado
14,909 14,463 14,643 14,996 14,629 13,925 -6.6% Pittsburgh
11,485 11,419 11,611 10,975 10,840 10,693 -6.9% W Louisiana
42,726 40,211 40,954 37,523 38,168 39,684 -7.1% New York
1,920 1,787 1,800 1,847 1,877 1,780 -7.3% N Michigan
8,334 8,394 8,144 7,134 7,657 7,720 -7.4% Indianapolis
19,650 19,332 19,765 19,937 17,320 18,137 -7.7% Arizona
15,836 15,259 15,016 15,215 14,275 14,611 -7.7% San Diego
12,877 13,088 12,767 11,750 11,426 11,828 -8.1% N California
12,821 11,415 11,258 11,745 11,901 11,721 -8.6% East Tenn
10,744 10,878 10,410 10,173 10,557 9,763 -9.1% Western Mich
16,213 16,467 16,127 14,881 15,179 14,691 -9.4% Central NY
10,754 9,777 10,203 10,042 10,297 9,741 -9.4% Rochester
2,050 2,105 2,059 1,978 1,936 1,851 -9.7% Eau Claire
2,566 2,419 2,628 3,130 2,599 2,303 -10.2% Quincy
13,875 12,639 12,663 13,572 12,487 12,364 -10.9% C Pennsylvania
7,733 7,666 7,686 7,330 7,314 6,878 -11.1% San Joaquin
5,317 4,843 5,027 4,969 4,766 4,724 -11.2% Wyoming
13,193 11,555 11,750 11,524 11,649 11,715 -11.2% Bethlehem
9,890 8,961 9,226 8,755 8,418 8,739 -11.6% Iowa
9,019 7,694 8,305 7,254 7,683 7,939 -12.0% Nebraska
6,995 6,821 6,924 6,960 6,901 6,113 -12.6% Easton
12,586 11,909 11,442 11,375 11,316 10,985 -12.7% El Camino Real
21,523 20,722 19,294 19,069 20,227 18,747 -12.9% California
15,474 14,354 13,603 13,257 13,228 13,454 -13.1% W New York
31,649 27,648 27,146 25,771 26,796 27,452 -13.3% SoW Florida
28,626 27,525 27,263 27,006 25,753 24,648 -13.9% Newark
2,351 2,275 2,207 2,197 1,936 2,024 -13.9% Western Kansas
48,042 43,593 43,685 41,265 41,584 41,259 -14.1% Connecticut
33,710 31,898 30,654 27,947 28,790 28,779 -14.6% Chicago
648 554 596 621 564 553 -14.7% Navajoland
6,097 5, 365 5, 540 4, 872 5, 088 5,196 -14.8% N Indiana
8,279 8,369 8,266 7,599 7,065 6,980 -15.7% Spokane
28,393 23,729 24,730 22,974 24,928 23,913 -15.8% SE Florida
9,239 9,166 8,774 8,289 8,318 7,767 -15.9% Delaware
11,934 11,459 10,654 9,308 10,086 10,023 -16.0% Missouri
10,057 8,445 8,438 8,133 8,333 8,440 -16.1% West Virginia
57,877 51,670 51,378 50,966 47,164 47,645 -17.7% Massachusetts
50,331 43,907 42,624 42,520 41,372 41,392 -17.8% Pennsylvania
21,476 20,144 17,402 17,209 18,045 17,633 -17.9% Rhode Island
28,333 26,729 25,333 23,774 23,687 23,054 -18.6% Ohio
2,144 2,146 1,843 1,720 1,691 1,734 -19.1% North Dakota
41,998 32,228 34,274 34,882 33,896 33,588 -20.0% New Jersey
53,550 45,920 43,720 42,612 42,144 42,810 -20.1% Long Island
6,634 5,212 5,098 5,498 5,146 5,237 -21.1% Fond du Lac
7,262 6,900 6,977 6,032 6,063 5,418 -25.4% South Dakota
3,067 2,189 1,804 1,908 1,883 2,035 -33.6% Eastern Oregon
35,265 30,860 31,105 27,835 25,219 17,870 -49.3% Michigan
6,978 n/a Eastern Mich
ECUSA Totals
1,698,240 1990
1,615,505 1991
1,614,081 1992
1,579,405 1993
1,577,951 1994
1,584,760 1995
-6.7% 90 vs 95
Surely we can do better than this!