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Anonymous wrote on Wed, Jul 9, 2003 02:52 AM EDT:
Clearly I know that Presbyterians are bishopless, I named them as an
example of such a church in a previuos comment! Far be it from one who
finds your piece named after a real churchman an unnecessary complication
to suggest adding pieces named after fictitious ones! The point of my end
paragraph, which I did label 'incidental', was to clarify between whom
'that fighting' in Northern Ireland had been. Another incidental point
is that facts about the Orthodox church would not help in a Russian-themed
game as Russians call the standard Bishop by their word for an elephant.
	As to what Anglicans are, they are seen as Protestant by most of
themselves and by most members of other churches, and Protestant values
are what the British-Canadian-Australian sovereign vows (yes, vows!) to
uphold as Supreme Governor. It is also problematic to qualify Catholic for
the Pope’s followers. Calling them Roman is inaccurate as there is now
complete separation between the Vatican, a political entity independent of
all others, and Rome, the capital of an Italy with no established
religion.
	Returning to my main point, and accepting your point about the norm and
the exception, I am still left asking about the Bishop+Knight compound.
Cardinal is, if I have counted rightly, the name used in the most games
for that non-colourbound piece. You yourself have devised a game with a
non-colourbound Pope. Surely the higher up the Catholic hierarchy one goes
the more a vow of celibacy is the norm, as exempt priests with their
general age disadvantage die off.
	You have a standard Rook, and you certainly don’t have different kinds of
Knight to represent the orders of the Bath, Garter, Thistle, &c.! So why
not have a standard Bishop and accept that the same piece can represent
the same title in different denominations?

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