José squinted his eyes, looked at the people in the center of the banquet hall with interest, and whispered to Su Ya in private:

"This Leo doesn't look to be in his twenties, and he's already the archbishop of the temple? I heard Gould say that there is even an unwritten rule within the Temple of Light. The www.biquge.info says that as long as he serves as the archbishop of the Central Diocese, he is basically designated as the next pope...... This guy has such a big background?!"

When Su Ya heard him say this, she just smiled, looking at him with a little surprise in her expression: "What, what are you still interested in this guy?"

José heard the joke in Su Ya's tone, and couldn't help but shake his head and said, "He's not a beauty, what can I be interested in him?"

It's just that he is already a bishop of the temple at a young age, and in my impression, the archbishop of the Temple of Light is one of the leaders of the church who holds real power, and he must be a mature old man in his fifties and sixties...... Hey, I said this guy wouldn't be the Pope's bastard, would he?!"

Su Ya glanced at him directly, and hurriedly whispered: "Don't talk nonsense, His Majesty the Pope today is a respected old man, and he has served in the temple since he was a child, and he has never been married in his life, where did he come from? Don't talk nonsense about such words, in case they are heard by others, they will be regarded as blasphemy against the Pope and the temple!"

When Joseph heard her say this, he touched his nose, smiled, and said no more.

When Su Ya said this, she looked at Jose with a puzzled look on her face, and then slowly explained to him:

It turned out that the Archbishop of Leo was indeed only twenty-five years old, and he had been the Archbishop of the Central Diocese four years earlier. But at that time, the central diocese already had an archbishop, and he was dispatched by the Holy Province in the northeast and directly replaced the archbishop!

As soon as these words came out, Jose was even more shocked, four years ago...... Wasn't this guy only twenty-one years old when he became an archbishop?! At this age, I'm afraid that the average clergyman can only mix with the position of a priest, and he is already an archbishop of the Central Diocese?!

According to Su Ya, this Leo Archbishop can indeed be regarded as an outlier in the temple! Because in the thousand-year-old history of the Temple of Light, tradition and seniority have always been attached, especially the senior leaders of the temple like the diocesan archbishop.

Inside the Temple of Light, it is actually roughly the same administrative structure as the central part of the empire. A clergyman should start from the lowest local parish priest, and after three or five years as a priest, those who have performed well will be promoted to the lower level, then the intermediate level, the high level, and then they will have the opportunity to enter the Holy Province, that is, enter the Papal States and receive a higher level of training.

Generally speaking, there are hundreds or thousands of priests in a diocese, and for three years the central body of the Church, the Holy Governorate, selects about 100 senior priests from all over the country. Most of these people have worked in local parishes for many years, and their prestige and experience are some middle and high-ranking clergy.

Among these people, the temple will assign them to the Inquisition or the Temple Inquisition and the Holy Knights, and teach them some special methods of the Temple of Light, and at the same time, they will be further promoted among them, and those who have excelled will be promoted to deacons of the Holy See.

The so-called deacon of the Holy See is a candidate for archbishop, and to be able to hold the position of deacon means that he has entered the upper echelons of the Temple of Light. In the entire Temple of Light, there are about 30 deacons in various departments and categories, and only after serving as a papal deacon for more than ten years can they be eligible to run for the office of archbishop of a local diocese.

The temple stipulates that cardinals must be at least a clergy of the rank of deacon, and there are strict requirements for the personal cultivation of deacons. It is necessary to have outstanding learning, virtue and competence, which are discussed and evaluated within the Holy See.

As for the archbishop of the local diocese, he is almost the core of the inner echelons of the temple, and not only is the process of election extremely complicated, but also the temple has to dispatch to the local diocese. Those who have made outstanding achievements in the indoctrination of the local diocese and passed the temple tax examination will be qualified as "bishops", and if the archbishop of a diocese leaves office or dies, the position of archbishop is vacated, and these bishops will have the opportunity to become the archbishop of the local diocese.

It is conceivable that in such a cumbersome process that attaches importance to seniority and tradition, the selection of an archbishop is almost through layers of selection, which not only has high requirements for his own ability, but also has an extremely important aspect!

In the history of the Temple of Light, there are no such exceptions, in the records of the internal documents of the Temple, only three people were under the age of thirty and obtained the title of archbishop, and all three of them eventually became the Pope without exception, and once expanded the sphere of influence of the Temple of Light, and even called the "Manifestation" period!

According to rumors from the outside world, the selection and management of clergy within the temple will go through a series of complex and mysterious rituals, and every clergy who enters the upper echelons of the temple must maintain a high degree of loyalty to the faith! Therefore, in the selection process, in addition to taking into account personal ability, the pious belief in the gods is an important factor.

Every cult is in the process of being selected, and is taught a mysterious magic by the temple - of course, called "divine magic" inside the temple!

However, many magicians scoff at this, because in their opinion, only magicians are the group closest to the gods, and only magic is the power that the gods give to sentient beings, and those so-called magic ...... It's just some weird magic, and it's just called a god!

In view of such a special group of magicians, even those as powerful as the temple cannot judge these blasphemous creatures, after all, magicians are also a special group with magic. The temple claims that any magic is a branch of magic, and uses this to secretly oppose the magicians.

However, after all, magicians are a small group of people, and their influence is limited, so naturally they can't challenge the authority of the temple, but if ordinary people dare to desecrate the majesty of the temple like this, I am afraid that they will be tied to the stake and burned to death by the people of the Inquisition!