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It is because there is little practical difference between Catholics and Anglicans or Lutherans, except at the deepest points. Anglicans claim apostolic succession but the Catholic Church rejects it generally because Henry VIII couldn't get bishops who agreed with him so he ordained his own. Since he was not a successor to an apostle, they broke the ordination chain back to the apostles. Hence, their ordinations are not considered valid. In addition, they briefly purposefully changed the prayers of ordination in order to break it. That said, they have currently some valid bishops who were ordained by bishops of valid churches.
The Archbishop of Canterbury is the primate of the entire Anglican communion and sits on the seat of St. Augustine. He technically outranks the Archbishop of York in precedence, but barely. Precedence in the old churches has to do with the order in which a church was founded. In the United States, the Archbishop of Baltimore is the bishop of the oldest continuous church in the United States. Since each bishop is generally independent of each other, precedence is mostly meaningless outside your own synod. Within your own synod, the bishop with precedence is responsible for organizing synod meetings etc. He is the local first among equals, he usually is the court of last appeal. For Catholics, the bishop of Rome is the final person you can appeal a decision by your local priest to, if you disagree. Methodists were Anglicans and also have bishops and cathedrals. In fact, if you attend a Methodist bishop's service and then went to a Roman Catholic bishop's service, you wouldn't likely see any difference at all. A cathedral is a seat, a cathedral is where the bishop sits. The territory of a bishop is often called a see, which is also a word for seat. It is similar to a "county seat." The church you saw was dedicated to St. Andrew and may in fact have relics of Andrew in it, depending on where you are at.
Fortunately, Lutherans and Anglicans are working on reunion. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in particular is actively working on full union with the Church of Rome. Methodists are getting there and I believe Presbyterians are trying too. The obstacles really are not as big from a theological perspective as people think. The issues are almost purely emotional. Still, Luther left a dying prayer to be prayed by all Lutherans for reunion. That was the goal of the protest really. Protestants have just forgot that and many churches have just spun off far away from early Christianity. Many of the Churches would be horrified by what early Christianity really looked like and would likely renounce first, second and third century Christians as non-Christians. I am certain the early Christians would denounce most modern churches completely.
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How come an ANGLICAN church is named ST. ANDREW'S CATHEDRAL? It sounds so Roman Catho
