Details at Catholic.orgWASHINGTON, DC (Catholic Online) - Did you know there is a Google Map that is tracking Anglican parishes entering the Ordinariate? You can visit it the Ordinariate Google Map anytime to look at the latest statistics.
According to the recent count, the United States leads with 36 groups, Canada has 30 and the United Kingdom has 18. The originator, Shane Schaetzel, is currently looking for collaborators in Australia and the United Kingdom to help him keep track of those coming in.
Br. Stephen Treat, O.Cist., a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank in Wisconsin provided an interesting statistical comparison of American Ordinariate parishes with the current Episcopal Church (TEC) in the United States.
A frequent contributor for The Anglo-Catholic which is moderated by Christian Campbell, Brother Stephen posted the following observations based on the number of parishes remaining stable at 36 with an Average Sunday attendance (ASA) of 2500 - a very modest estimate.
This would make the current Ordinariate larger than 21 of the domestic dioceses in The Episcopal Church. Should the American Ordinariate were to grow to an ASA of 5000, it would be either larger than or roughly the same size as 59 of the domestic dioceses of The Episcopal Church.
While this may seem like small numbers when compared to Catholic parishes, these figures are significant with regard to the Anglican world.
Like many others, Brother Stephen Treat found his path leading from evangelicalism to Anglicanism and and finally into the Roman Catholic Church, where he became a Cistercian monk. Our Lady of Spring Bank is a small Abbey of the Order of Cistercians, generally known as the Common Cistercians, located on 600 acres near La Crosse, Wisconsin.
There's zero in Wisconsin, one in Minnesota, and one in Iowa. We're not exactly Anglican around here though, much more of a Lutheran area.
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