Father Steve, I don't think I have to give details of the image that primate archbishops gave me for you to understand my fit of no-derespect-intended helpless giggles. (Were I at all versed in religious hierarchy, I'm sure I wouldn't have thought anything of it.)
Anyway--I take the meaning as being the same as when Lt. Worf accepted discommodation by the High Council on Klingon (Star Trek: the Next Generation): that is, the status (as bishop, presumably) will no longer be recognized.