Governed By Polity

Connects a denomination, religious order or secret society to the church-polity or governance form by which it is governed, such as episcopal, presbyterian, congregational, synodal or a lineage-based form, where the form is itself a doctrine entity in this atlas. It adds a durable, comparable entity identity for the existing polity enum fact recorded on those entries; it does not replace that enum fact, which continues to classify every member exactly as before. The inverse reading, Polity Of, names the same relationship from the governance form toward each body governed by it.