So you're saying high fallutin' city folk are pretentious and rural people are not? In the church setting, I find that not to be true. It's he who thinks that he has the fast route to heaven that is pretentious, rural or urban.
I would have used the word 'hypocritical' but I suppose tastes vary in the matter. Also I did contrast cathedral churches with others. I should have said any other local parish, including city ones.
Just trying to get at what 'pretentious' might actually mean, when one is contrasting the entire Episcopal church (the 'non-pretentious' one) with the entire Catholic Church (that would be the 'pretentious' one).
I'm thinking it's tough to draw any single uniform distinction between entire churches. Even certain Episcopal churches have rigorously orthodox beliefs, while certain Catholic ones are quite, flexible, shall we say.
Perhaps this latter dimension was more along the lines you were thinking?