Posted on 04/22/2026 11:30:12 PM PDT by Cronos
Catholics are on course to outnumber Anglicans in Britain, with the growth spearheaded by younger churchgoers who outnumber their Anglican brethren by more than two to one, a report by the Bible Society reveals.
A “quiet revival” in UK Catholicism appears to be occurring, especially among those age groups referred to as Generation Z and younger Millennials, reportsThe Times of London, while noting that Catholics are rapidly catching up with Anglican numbers across all age groups.
It means that Catholicism could soon overtake Anglicanism to become the country’s largest denomination of worshippers for the first time since the English Reformation initiated by King Henry VIII in 1527. Anglicans could even slip into third place behind Pentecostals among churchgoers aged under 35 years of age.
“Our report does not challenge the well-established fact that fewer people in England and Wales are choosing to identify as Christian,” Dr Rhiannon McAleer, director of research at the Bible Society, said. “However, it is the first large-scale study to concentrate not on self-declared Christian identity but on actual Christian practice. By this measurement, the Church is in an exciting period of growth and change.”
So while the average Briton is still more likely than ever to be a non-believer, according to the new report, those who do still identify as Christian appear to be “practising their religion more intentionally”, with an increase in the number who say they attend church at least once a month, reports The Times.
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The statistics appear in a Bible Society report and are conclusive: among the under-25s, the ratio is about to shift to two to one in favor of Catholics. If the trend continues, Catholicism could become numerically the largest Christian denomination in England for the first time since the Reformation. Anglicans could even drop to third place, behind Pentecostals.
Christ is King.
Catholics may be growing faster but the Anglicans supposedly bottomed out in ~2015.
One anecdotal, we were there for a few weeks in june 2014, and attended St Martins in the Fields. There were several hundred in the church each Sunday, but nowhere near 900, as reported here.
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Just some points:
1. Nationalism, not ‘open borders,’ was the primary engine of both World Wars — this had been building since the nation-state “in this land and no one else allowed” was inaugurated by the French in the French revolution.
WWI was the result of rigid ethnic borders and imperial land-grabs, and WWII was driven by a radical ‘blood and soil’ ideology that was the literal antithesis of the Church’s universalism.
2. The Church teaches taht nations have a right to regulate their borders for the common good. The Church seeks a ‘New Creation’ where the Gospel unites people across tribes. When the Church looks at a migrant, she sees a soul first and a ‘foreigner’ second.
The ‘Great War’ the Church is worried about isn’t a conflict between nations—it’s the ‘culture of indifference’ that forgets that every person is made in the Imago Dei. You might see ‘open borders’ as a political failure, but the Church sees the Great Commission as a borderless mandate. Which one should a Christian prioritize?
I have been to St. Martin in the fields only for a concert.
The interiors were kind of cold for such an old church
You mean in terms of decoration, or temperature ?
For Rome that may sound encouraging but there’s a problem: the Anglican Church is arguably now, due to 60 years of VC-II degradation, more ‘Catholic” than the RCC!
What’s even more telling is that much of the regular attendance of young people at the Church of England are African and black Caribbean immigrants and their children. The (ethnically) English have statistically given up on Anglicanism.
Some of that is just Catholic vs Anglican which usually has more restrained interiors.
Current St Martins is Neoclassical from the early 1700s, while that Basilica is considerably older.
Pedos and Islamos rejoice.
Anglicanism was favorable to Islam - right from Queen liz 1 allying with the Turks, to the subservience of the EIC to the Mughals to the Victorian alliance with the Turks in the Crimean war
I think this is primarily driven by young men, who are sick of these short-haired lesbian Anglican priests and bishops, preaching communism from the pulpit. The Catholic church is the only one that still restricts this to men.
In good King Charles' golden days when loyalty no harm meant
A pious man of God was I and so I gained preferment.
There is no god but God quoth I, Muhammad is His prophet.
The infidel sign upon the flag shall soon be taken off it.And this be law, I will maintain ...
It means that Catholicism could soon overtake Anglicanism to become the country’s largest denomination of worshippers for the first time since the English Reformation initiated by King Henry VIII in 1527.It was more likely Elizabeth I's Act of Uniformity in 1558 and the Jesuits Act of 1584 that more fully marked the larger transition from Catholicism to Anglicanism, as until then Catholicism persisted in private across the realm, especially in England and Wales.
Heretical Antipopes don’t get to change Catholic teaching. National leaders are obligated to act in their nations best interest and Capital Punishment is valid and immutable.
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