text: Um, don't think it is/was the same at all.  The head of the Swedish Lutheran church was not negotiating to join the Catholic church.  I doubt that cannon law would allow him to even talk to her about it.   Nor would she give up her chair as archbishop of Sweden to become what, a nun?  Because that is what it would take.   Nope, not many Protestant churches would negotiate, given the Vatican's "my way or the highway" attitude.  It takes two to negotiate.  When one side says it has to be their way, that's a dictatorship, not a meeting of equals.