At one time a leading denomination of American mainline Protestantism, the U.S.-based Episcopal Church has -- for the first time in many decades -- reported membership below two million, the California Catholic Daily website reports today (October 27, 2011).
Self-reported statistics provided by the denomination this month show that the church has dropped from 2,006,343 members in 2009 to 1,951,907 in 2010 -- the most recent reporting year.
Moreover, as the U.S. branch of the Anglican Church, the Episcopal Church's 10-year change in active members has dropped 16 percent.
Many thousands of former members of the Episcopal Church have left it in recent years -- many have converted to Catholicism -- because of its implementation of several anti-Christian policies, including the acceptance of women priests and bishops, acceptance of gay and lesbian priests and bishops, and the approval of same-sex marriages.
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