The Church of England has become irrelevant because it let itself become that way, with little or no help from the Royal Family to boot. The political class of England, er Great Britain, have been, as always, politicians and self-serving socialists since the end of WWII, and before that (sans Churchill)creating a servile, socialist state with the government replacing religion as its source of strength and comfort instead of belief in a higher being. Well, the chickens have come home to roost, the socialist system in Europe is broke, the mohammedans are pressing their barbaric system of demands on a weak-kneed, jelly fish people that sent these bastards scurrying under Richard the Lion Heart centuries before. I remain in disbelief as this sorry state continues to unravel and pray for a miracle that the British people (the non-muslim ones) grow a back bone and kick these sorry enemies of the West back into the hell holes they came from. I suspect it will take a near revolution and societal implosion before a religious revival and rebirth (Christian that is) occurs in Britain,or the whole of Europe for that matter, but I am not holding my breath. How it could have come to this, I look at the heads of government and the Church of England as the primary culprits in their own demise. Shame, shame, shame on them, while muslims, atheists, communists, and the rest of the slimy ilk that wait in the shadows to take a piece of this once great, but now withering, dying country and make it their own. God help the remaining Brits in their up and coming battle. I hope its a tremendous victory, regardless of how long it takes, rather than a whimper, surrender, then death of a once great civilization.
As a proud American descended from oppressed Irish peasants who were intentionally starved and dispossessed for centuries by the British Monarchs in concert with the Church of England, permit me to respectfully dissent from your unreserved wishes for a smashing British victory in the upcoming struggle.
Perhaps I lack imagination, but how could it possibly have gone worse for Ireland the past few centuries? Even the Turks weren't that cruel to the Serbs, as horrible as they acted in the Balkans. Serbia was never as oppressed as Catholic Ireland. Will Durant wrote a thing about this. The Irish were easily among the most oppressed people in the world.
As far as I know, the Church of England has heaped abuse upon itself for the horrors of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, with which it was only tangentially involved, but it has never uttered a word of collective repentance for the unspeakable atrocities it very directly inflicted on the Irish people.
So please forgive me for not sharing your enthusiasm for a speedy British victory in the looming cultural showdown.
As I was taught from an early age "England's misfortune is Ireland's opportunity."