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About 95–100%…… that’s because the figures that you see on sites like Wikipedia aren’t actually “official membership” figures.The official membership figures of the Church of England is defined by the “Parish electoral roll.” That’s to say, the number of people who (re-)declare themselves to be members of the CoE and thus entitled to vote in Church elections.You have to re-declare every two years, and affirm three things:That either you live in the Parish, or live elsewhere but worship at the church where you’re applying for membership, even though it’s not your “local.”That you believe in the Holy Trinity.That you are in good standing “having habitually attended public worship in the parish during a period of six months prior to enrolment”So the number of people claiming “current membership” is about 800,000… and pretty much all of us actually go to Church regularly :-)What you often see quote in texts about “non-attending church members” is the figure of people who were Baptised/Christened in a CoE church. There are about 25,000,000 of them.But they aren’t “official Church of England members”.

I’ll deal with them all individually:The Faith of the Seven:(‘The Faith’, by Nicole Cardiff)The Faith is essentially the ASOIAF equivalent of the Medieval Catholic Church. Like the Medieval Church, it is the dominant faith in Westeros; it has priests, nuns, bishops, and a Pope figure (numerous septons and septas, plus the High Septon); it has a holy book (the Seven Pointed Star), crusading orders (the Faith Militant are essentially the equivalent of Knights Templar or the Hospitaller Knights of St. John); it is the traditional religion of the kings; and it has a more clear and codified religious dogma and structure than the older religions which came before it. The Seven themselves are seven faces of one God, just like the Holy Trinity is one God in three as found in Christianity. On top of that, the cult surrounding the Mother mirrors that surrounding the Virgin Mary in Medieval Europe, to some extent. In both religions, worship takes place in large cathedrals or in smaller parish churches (septs).(The ecclesiastical structure of the Medieval Church, including the Pope and cardinals)The Lord of Light:(Cover art for ‘A Clash of Kings’, by Stephen Youll, depicting the red priestess Melisandre)The worship of the Lord of Light probably best corresponds to the Cathar heresy of the Middle Ages. This was a Christian heresy widespread in parts of southern France and northern Italy (just like how the worship of R’hllor is mostly found in parts of Essos in ASOIAF), which had its ultimate origins in the East, in Manichaeism and Zoroastrianism. The Cathars believed that there were two gods - one good and the other evil - and that the good god was creator of the spiritual world while the evil god was creator of the physical. They believed in renouncing the evil present in the world, just as do the followers of R’hllor and their own duothestic religion. The Cathars also had women serving as priests and administrators of their tradition’s own sacrament (called consolamentum), just as the faith of R’hllor has red priestesses like Melisandre among his servants. In Westeros, there appears to be some rivalry between the dominant Faith of the Seven and the followers of R’hllor, just as in the real world there were suppressions of the Cathars by the Catholic Church (one example of this being the Albigensian Crusade).(Cathars being expelled from Carcassonne in 1209)The Old Gods:(‘Weirwood Tree’, digital fan art by Benco42)The worship of the Old Gods more or less corresponds to certain forms of pagan polytheism that persisted in certain areas during the Middle Ages. In Eastern Europe, there were large pockets of pagans persisting until well into Later Medieval period, in areas such as Lithuania. The Baltic Crusades were a series of conflicts involving the Teutonic Knights entering the Baltic and fighting the pagans of Lithuania. Both faiths (the real world paganism of the Lithuanians and the worship of the Old Gods in Westeros) are polytheistic, worshiping a number or pantheon of gods and spirits present in the natural world. Both also place emphasis on sacred groves of trees, such as the Weirwood Trees of Westeros, or the Romuva temple of Prussia (note the large oak present in the sanctuary):And finally:The Drowned God:This is basically Martin’s answer to H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. The symbol of the Greyjoys is a tentacled Kraken (Cthulhu?), they’re a pretty bleak and miserable people (brings to mind the overall nihilism of Lovecraft’s mythos), and their religion involves worship of various water-dwelling monstrosities and eldritch abominations who rule beyond life and death. Finally, compare the Drowned God’s faith’s catchphrase (“What is dead may never die”) with Lovecraft’s famous Necronomicon quote (“That is not dead which can eternal lie. And with strange aeons even death may die”).

Cologne Cathedral is Roman Catholic.While there are a few Episcopal and Church of England parishes scattered across Germany,[1] the only Episcopal cathedral in Europe is in Paris.[2][3]Interior of the nave and sanctuary of the Cathedral of the Holy Trinity, Episcopal Cathedral, Paris. Source: WikipediaThe only Catholic cathedral in Germany that is not Roman Catholic is the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus (Namen-Jesu-Kirche) in Bonn.[4] It is the cathedral of the Old Catholic Church in Germany,[5] with whom Anglicans and Episcopalians are in full communion.Nave, sanctuary, and low and high altars of the Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, Old Catholic cathedral for Germany. Source: WikipediaFootnotes[1] CAECG | Anglicans in Germany | Anglikaner in Deutschland[2] The American Cathedral in Paris[3] American Cathedral in Paris - Wikipedia[4] http://www.namenjesukirche.de/[5] Catholic Diocese of the Old Catholics in Germany - Wikipedia