I am sometimes very straight in my responses to make sure nobody misinterprets them as a "no, but..." when it is a clear "no, period".
The ranking system of guilds and religions is intentionally simple, straightforward and linear. It will not be changed. Anything more complicated you want can be done in this system with a little bit of creativity and willingness to compromise. So on paper rank A and rank B might be 1 rank apart, but if you make them equal in everything else, it doesn't matter.
So in other words, different title having same rank is all good in your book except that you have to role play it because you don't want to implement it.
