Quote Originally Posted by Kaizlu View Post
Doubt it's a church, the sentence is just saying that the leader of the Church (as in - the Pope is the leader of the Church) also serves as the City-State leader. This is not all that surprising since even from 1.0 we know Ishgard has a faith-based society.
They're actually really nice people ready to help those that show respect and wish to help others.

That is to say, when they're not busy accusing everyone else of being a heretic. They are actually usually busy doing that.