>>What prevents the Nochet bishop from going out of his way to >>impress the Ecclesiarch in Leplain (hoping to earn a more >>influential see closer to his family's power base)?
> He would be giving over the control of Aeolians (who are supposed
> to be most of his flock) over to somebody else!
Are the Aeolians the most dear part of his flock?
I doubt it. Nochet is home to several Malkioni sects, including the sect which threw out Vistikos Left-eye. Probably there was a "one bishop per see" policy enforced by the Jrusteli, but with the Closing I'd expect the united faith to return to squabbling sects again.
> And the Nochet
> Bishop would be a local who has been converted to the Seshnegi
> doctrines as I do not think that before 1616 ST, the Pharaoh or
> the Queens of Nochet would tolerate the election of a foreigner as
> Bishop.
I find it fairly likely that the Pharaoh would tolerate a bishop from an allied nation who would pay a handsome gift to gain the bishopric over a couple of unrelated sects.
I don't think there was a united Malkioni church under the Pharaoh. All Malkioni groups had to include the Mangod in their venerations, I suppose, perhaps a "Prester John come to rule us", but that doesn't mean that he enforced a strict hierarchy or unified the local variations of Malkionism.
>>> The backers are the united religious and civil leaders of the >>> Quinpolic league, not LePlain.
>>You think the Ecclesiarch or his cronies have no influence at all?
> Damned little influence in any case. The Ecclesiarch has about as
> much influence as the Pope has with the French or the Venetians
> throughout much of their history.
Like during the Catharian crusades? Unlike France, the Quinpolis is not a united strong centralist kingdom (that's the Ecclesiarch's home country), but rather a confederation of (recently) wealthy princes (reminiscent of the lowlands of Flanders).
If anything, the Ecclesiarch reminds me of the Avignon popes.
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