Small dioceses and sees

Small CoE sees and dioceses have a tendency to do business through agents of the civil law, and their vicars are always at some police station or other bleating about some parishioner or some other church that is more populous, as if these dioceses were just extensions of the state temporal, rather than independent and autonomous sees of the power spiritual. A bizarre situation by any standard, and one that would raise the hackles of all the european churches, because it means that other churches simply do not trust the clergy of the CoE.