From The NY Daily News-Tony Soprano would not have been caught dead in a Protestant church.
But the funeral for James Gandolfini, the actor who played the mob chief in "The Sopranos," will be held 10 a.m. Thursday at the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, which is Episcopalian, a church spokesman said Monday.
Why remained a mystery Monday because Gandolfini - the son of Italian immigrants - was raised Catholic.
The mobster he played was also Catholic - although Tony Soprano regularly broke the Ten Commandments, especially No. 5, which is "Thou shall not kill."
But the soaring sanctuary in Morningside Heights has hosted farewells for other famous folks who also weren't Protestant like former Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, whose dad was a lapsed Catholic and whose mother was Jewish.
Writer James Baldwin had his funeral at the cathedral, and he was raised Pentecostal and turned his back on Christianity.
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Episcopals are not Protestant. Episcopals come from the Anglican Catholic background which came from Roman Catholicism.
He may have turned to the Episcopal faith, which understand is still Christianity, when he divorced his first wife. The Roman Catholic sect would have most likely turned on him for that and other reasons. Where as the Anglican Catholic or Episcopals would not.
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