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Using the data from achurchnearyou (as of 2019), use the links below to find the total number of benefices, parishes and (Anglican) churches in a given diocese/archdeaconry/deanery/benefice, but also the benefices with the most churches.
We provide an interactive Church of England parish map, with summary deprivation and census statistics mapped onto parish boundaries. The map also shows parish, benefice, deanery, archdeaconry, diocese, and lower super output area (LSOA) boundaries, and school locations.
Aug 5, 2016 · Research published by the Church of England’s Research and Statistics department in 2016 showed that the proportion of parishes in multi-parish benefices grew from 17 per cent in 1960 to 71 per cent in 2011 (News, 5 August 2016).
Benefices of the Church of England are made up of one or more parishes administered by a team of clergy and lay assistants. Benefices are usually grouped into a Deanery which in turn belong to a Diocese.
There are 42 dioceses of the Church of England. [1] These cover England, the Isle of Man, the Channel Islands and a small part of Wales. The Diocese in Europe is also a part of the Church of England, [1] and covers the whole of continental Europe, Morocco and the post-Soviet states. [2]
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n the likelihood of attendance growth and decline. This research has also revealed that there is no statistically significant relationship between the number of churches within a benefice (the benefice structure) and numerical growth or decline when the effects of clergy numbers and three other factors namely: the type of geographical area, chan...