Not where I'm from, but somewhere I'd been. (Well I suppose we have it where I'm from, but it's a rather de-fanged version of what I'm discussing.) However, we called it the Magisterium. They meant to keep order by ridding people of their ability to make choices. It was run in the name of one, the Authority, but truly run by someone called Metatron.
There was a large-scale battle. I suppose you could say my side - us, rather - we won.
Sounds like your Healing Church is really quite different.