[TradicalRC]

he favored Arianism, which was not the faith of the majority

I thought that "the whole world groaned to find itself Arian" in those days.

[RobbyS]

If one does not distinguish between Arian and semi-Arian. The bishops, many of them, tended to be “unsteady,” which is to say that not unlike the bishops of the Church of England in Henry’s day, they dithered.