LOL - Thanks for the episode update!
I think that because he had been excommunicated, that meant he was a Good Priest. Remember, the heroine of the story had also been threatened with excommunication by the evil Vatican.
That said, I watched it just because I enjoyed seeing places that I'd been in Prague and Rome. It was a very lame show, mini-series, or whatever it was supposed to be.
I only watched Part 6 and found that I missed nothing in the previous 5. Was flipping back and forth to the History C. and the history of rubber...took the dog out at 2100.