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Diviner church backing sultanate in Germany, alienating plenty (9)

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I believe the answer is:

geomancer

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'alienating plenty' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'diviner church backing sultanate in germany' is the wordplay.
'diviner church' becomes 'ce' (abbreviation for Church of England. I am not sure about the 'diviner' bit.).
'backing' says to put letters next to each other.
'sultanate' becomes 'oman' (I've seen this before).
'in' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'germany' becomes 'ger' (I've seen this in other clues).
'ce' after 'oman' is 'omance'.
'omance' put within 'ger' is 'GEOMANCER'.

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(Another definition for geomancer that I've seen is " One skilled in the art of placing buildings, etc, auspiciously".)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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