WelCom February/March 2025
The number of Catholics attending Mass in England and Wales has shot up by roughly 50,000 in 2023. The latest figures from the Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales reveal that, while 503,308 attended Mass in 2022, 554,913 did so in 2023. The increase still falls short of the pre-Covid numbers. In 2019, according to the Bishops’ Conference, 701,902 people attended Sunday Mass. A similar trend has been found in Scotland. Data shows that 95,029 people attended Sunday Mass in Scotland in 2023, compared to 89,420 the previous year. Like England, Mass attendance in Scotland has not returned to pre-Covid levels: 127,003 Scots attended Sunday Mass in 2019. Nevertheless, 647,600 people attended Sunday Mass in Britain in 2023, compared to 592,428 in 2022.