New diocesan data for the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) released this past week shows a 2.55 percent jump in churchwide Average Principal Sunday Attendance in 2025, an increase of 2,509 from 96,009 in 2024 to 98,514 in the most recent reporting year. The data is viewable below in the PDF form it was provided in.
The numbers, drawn from the 2025 congregational report, place the ACNA among a small number of U.S.-based denominations including the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and the Assemblies of God (AG), each of which report annual growth of 2-3 percent. It does, however, mark a slowdown from the double-digit growth reported for each of the prior three years rebounding from the period of COVID restrictions at the beginning of the decade.
ACNA Executive Director Deborah Tepley announced in June at the denomination’s annual Provincial Council held at Cornerstone Church in Tulsa an attendance increase of 1,402 persons (1.5 percent) from 97,032 persons in 2024 to 98,434 in 2025. Numbers from that 2025 mission index have since been adjusted by a data analyst who corrected 2024 figures, revising them downward from 97,032 to 96,009, accounting for the greater percentage attendance increase in 2025 compared to the initial announcement. The ACNA previously reported a 13.4 percentage increase for 2024.
The ACNA reported data from 27 dioceses, not counting the Special Jurisdiction of the Armed Forces & Chaplaincy. The church’s largest dioceses by attendance continue to be the Diocese of Churches for the Sake of Others (C4SO) up 400 from 12,260 to 12,660 (3.16 percent), South Carolina (ADoSC) down 725 from 8,858 to 8,133 (8.91 percent), Christ Our Hope (DCOH) up 563 from 7,352 to 7,915 (7.11 percent), Diocese of the Carolinas (ADOC) up 189 from 6,756 to 6,945 (2.72 percent), Mid-Atlantic (DOMA) up 287 from 6,599 to 6,886 (4.17 percent), the Diocese of the South (ADOTS) up 795 from 5,561 to 6,356 (12.51 percent) and Rocky Mountains 5,613, up 542 (9.66 percent).
Only four dioceses reported an attendance decline in 2025: the Houston-based Diocese of the Western Gulf Coast (DWGC), down 113 from 1,621 to 1,508 (7.49 percent), the Reformed Episcopal Church’s Diocese of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic, down 26 from 715 to 689 (3.77 percent), the Anglican Diocese of South Carolina, down 725 from 8,858 to 8,133 (8.91 percent) and El Paso-based Anglican Diocese of All Nations, down 84 from 1,195 to 1,111 (7.56 percent). The latter three are also the only dioceses to report an overall multi-year attendance decline from 2022 to 2025.
New figures for membership were also reported, up 1,836 from 128,161 to 129,997 (1.41 percent) compared to the 2024 increase in membership of 1,997 (1.5 percent) to a total of 130,111 that year, a number since revised downward to 128,161. There was a churchwide drop in the number of congregations by 23 from 1,027 to 1,004 (2.29 percent), compared to a net increase of 14 congregations in 2024.
The Anglican data comes amidst recent statistical releases this month from The Episcopal Church (down 6,033 attendees or 1.5 percent from 413,034 to 407,001, and membership at 1,425,065, down from 1,547,779 in 2023 – a 7.9 percent decrease over two years) and the United Methodist Church (a drop of 174,000 members from 2024 to 2025, or 4.36 percent to 3.814 million, and attendance at 1,041,745 people, down 3.08 percent from 1,074,000 in 2024). The Presbyterian Church (USA), which customarily releases data for the prior year in May, has yet to publish a comparative summary of statistics for 2025, but has released a more limited “notes and trends” document that lists a loss of 26,845 members to 1,019,003 total (about 2.6 percent).