The report, released on Wednesday, said the Church’s 42 dioceses had taken on “large numbers of staff” since the turn of the millennium while merging parishes and reducing clergy numbers to cut costs.
These administrative positions include human resources jobs and a series of “politicised roles” such as diversity, social justice, LGBT+ and net zero officers, the report found.
It means that “dioceses across the country now employ so many people that, on average, there is one administrator to every three-and-a-half priests”.
