Purge Chess, now with flagellant

I created another chess variant that I would like to play here [Does anyone dare?].

Purge chess or episcopal chess II (I didn't find a good name yet) is a chess variant that includes two new pieces of my creation: 

Pope (not confuse with the royal, classical fairy piece) and Flagellant.

Board:

Board has a size of 9x9 squares, that is the vanilla size of a shogi board.

Pieces and how to move these:

In the purge chess we will use standard chess pieces, however, eight more pieces per player are added: one pawn more, two flagellants, two templars, one pope and two archbishops (reserve).

Templars:

Templar is basically a omega chess champion. It can move one step ortogonally or leap two squares to any direction (diagonally or ortogonally).

Pope:

Pope can move one step to any direction (like a king), or move one step ortogonally and next leap two squares ortogonally several times following the same direction.

Archbishop (promotion of bishop):

Archbishop can move like bishop or like knight. This piece only can be obtained by promotion of bishop, ie:
When a bishop reaches the opponent's first row, it can promote like it would do a pawn, but the only promotion option of bishop is the archbishop.

Promote a bishop to a archbishop (being such piece at the first opponent row) will consume a turn.

Flagellant:

Flagellant is an special colorbound piece inspired in the chu shogi lion.
Flagellant can move/capture like a ferz (ie, it can move or capture diagonally one step, ie, move like bishop but only one square), however, it can do until two of these movements at the same turn, and each movement of the two can have different directions.

This also means that flagellant is able to do until two captures at the same turn.

An special movement, the igui capture (where flagellant captures a piece and next returns to the original square) is legal.

Initial positions of pieces in the board:

Where popes are represented by cross ♰

Templars by pica ♠
And flagellant by caduceus ☤

Thanks for read.

4 years late but this is great!

This looks like a very good variant to me; too bad I haven't noticed it earlier. I like the idea of double capture / igui (because I like Chu Shogi). But it is a great idea to only allow a diagonal double-step, because that makes FIDE Pawns igui-resistant, at least for attack from the front. Without that the Flagellants would probably have been too dominating. Btw, in analogy with the Chu-Shogi Lion, can the Flagellant also make its distant moves as a jump?

One personal note: I have grown a dislike for riders that repeat a larger orthogonal or diagonal leap (rather than a step), such as the Pope. They tend to be very confusing, as it is never intuitively obvious whether a piece that is in the 'line of sight' would block the move or not. But I guess others might consider this a charming property of the Pope.

A point of criticsm on the initial setup: one Flagellant of each player is in the line of fire of a discovered attack from the opponent's Pope. And I expect Flagellants to be worth appreciably more than Popes. (The latter should be similar in value to a Rook.)