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Caïssa Britannia. British themed variant with Lions, Unicorns, Dragons, Anglican Bishops, and a royal Queen. (10x10, Cells: 100) [All Comments] [Add Comment or Rating]

Anonymous wrote on Sat, Jun 28, 2003 07:24 AM UTC:

Why quote me on what I have already conceded was wrong? My new line is that
a name such as Bishop 'covers any denomination that has the rank'. If
it's church history you want, here goes. The English bishoprics that were
Catholic when that was England's established church became Anglican with
the establishment, which is why Canterbury had archbishops in the Middle
Ages and now has only Anglican ones. It is the current Catholic
archbishopric of Westminster that is a post-reformation creation. It is
entirely appropriate that a chess piece representing a spokesman for the
old established church goes on to represent a sole immediate successor who
is of the new one. Even bishopless Western denominations can ultimately
trace their roots to Catholicism in its monopolist pre-Reformation days.
The first Ulsterman I ever met was a Presbyterian with a surname meaning
'servant of the (Mediæval, and thereefore Catholic) bishop'!
	Names for the standard Bishop in other countries also fit in with their
preconceptions of the British establishment, from the nepotism-dependent
upper-class twit suggested by Fool to the oppressed indigenous underclass
of imperial days suggested by Elephant.