Possible Clues:

• High-ranking cleric
• Pleater (anag.)
• Churchman about to get plate out
• Churchman's first in poll recount
• Cleric quietly leading organisation for troubled couples
• High churchman concerned with cutting gold and silver vessels
• Pressure to tell bishop?
• Bishop, e.g
• Bishop later failed in physical training
• Churchman to talk at length about the Spanish