How big is the Orthodox Anglican Movement?
According to some of TEC’s leaders, the number of their parishes is 7,115 and the number of parishes seeking to leave TEC is around 160, or about 2.2%. This is not a very helpful or even honest way of counting. Within the Anglican Communion Network there are 851 parishes, all of which we presume are leaving. In addition, there are 500 orthodox Anglican parishes which are poised to join the new American Province and which left TEC at varying points in recent history. So the total comes to 1351 parishes, not 160. Even this however does not count the orthodox Anglican parishes that have not yet made a committment to the new Province (a number which may approach 559). Neither does it count the membership drainage from TEC parishes to Anglican and non-Anglican parishes that has occurred in the past few years, or the remaining TEC parishes that, upon seeing the whole picture in the days following September 30th (2007), will initiate steps to remove themselves from TEC. Finally, TEC leaders i
