360,000 worshippers flee Germany's progressive church in 2021




Synodal Path: Record Number Leaves German Catholic Church

360,000 left the neo-Protestant "Catholic" Church in Germany last year, about 87,000 more than during the previous record year 2019.

Membership fell from 22.2 million to 21.8 million.

The Protestants also recorded a decline and count now less than 20 million members.


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