[NYer]

You are too funny! Thanks for the reminders (I learn more from the converts than from the cradle catholics :-).

[AnAmericanMother]

Well, you know, we converts have more recent heavy-duty instruction under our belts . . . Monsignor gave us a stack of books to read -- gotta air that knowledge SOMEhow . . . ;-)

Actually, those early bishops were bishops before England was Anglican -- Polk of course was an American Episcopal bishop and also a Confederate general (killed at Pine Mountain during the Atlanta campaign).