I dont agree with that Werner.In my English campaigns i have always been one of the blue eyed boys.I always want to create a pious god fairing nation and so build churches and priests in all my settlements from the word go.The first Theologists guild offer for London has always come pretty quickly and i always work toward 100% catholic in all my provinces.
In the last two long campaigns as the English i have lost maybe one diplomat and a princess to Inquisitors and they weren't in my territory.

In all of my campaigns the usual suspects crop up time and time again for excommunication : Venice - HRE - Sicily - Milan.

The blue eyed boys have always been the English - Poland - Portugal - Hungary.