Posted on 08/17/2005 12:12:28 PM PDT by sionnsar
I reviewed this map recently due to some talk on the HOBD listserv about the need to consolidate Dioceses, particularly a lot of the “new” Dioceses in Florida and Louisiana (meaning mine!)
It is interesting to see where the Episcopalians are, and maybe how certain large Dioceses have more reappraisers and reasserters and are therefore under-represented in the Houses of Bishops and Deputies in the Episcopal Church.
Hat tip to Louie Crew for assembling this map.
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Aren't the in Episcopalia?
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I live in MA and wasn't aware it had such a high Episcopal concentration. They be crafty I guess.
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Isn't this one of the olde denominations in the process of breaking up, like Lutherans?
I live in a dark blue area and I'm surprised at the number too. Most people I meet are Southern Baptist.
Thanks..guess this means I owe you one, eh?
LOL, only if you want to. It happened to show up on Drell's Descants just today...
When you consider that the # of Episcopagans in the Diocese of Atlanta (the dark blue north half of the state) is only 40-50K, and the Atlanta metro alone had a population of FOUR MILLION in 2000, it kinda puts things in perspective. (The D of A itself claims 55,000 members, but I know for a fact they still are claiming US and we formally withdrew from membership 3 years ago . . .)
Just by way of comparison, our Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta has almost 400,000 members.
That map is encouraging to me, as I live in the dark blue are in central NC. Of course, many of the Episcos I meet shy away when they learn what I believe, but at least the numbers are there. I'll keep plugging.
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Awesome map, thanks for preparing and posting that. It's a pretty sparse smattering, isn't it?
They are in Connecticut :^)
Awesome map, thanks for preparing and posting that. It's a pretty sparse smattering, isn't it?
Take a look at the Episcopal shield/flag. See those seven crosses? They stand for the original 7 dioceses of the ECUSA. One of them is the Diocese of Massachusetts.
All I did was post it. But it's not as sparse as it looks; the choice of colors was poor, using white for "<10,000". White looks like "0".
Works out to around 1.735 million communicants, with 730,000 of them in the 14 largest dioceses.
Very interesting. Thanks for running the numbers!
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