How A lot Affect Will the Anglican Communion Have in Selecting the Subsequent Archbishop of Canterbury?

Five representatives of the broader Anglican Communion will assist to decide on the following Archbishop of Canterbury. However new knowledge present that the Communion has radically modified, and this raises questions concerning the course of. The web World Christian Database offers one of the best knowledge on the present dimension of the Communion. Numbers final recorded in 2020 present that world Anglicanism has doubled previously 50 years.

Because it continues to extend by about a million a 12 months, there are about 100 million Anglicans, as of 2025. That is the results of huge progress within the world South, whereas Anglicanism within the world North has principally shrunk. Speak of Anglicanism’s demise is the alternative of the reality.

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The Rev. Dr. David Goodhew is vicar of St. Barnabas Church, Middlesbrough, England, and visiting fellow of St John’s Faculty, Durham College.