azraeltheFallen
Can you do as the holy roman empire did by making their "own" counter pope, to the real pope
Myrddraal
I think I can answer that one for you, you can have your own pope (one of your clergy becomes pope), in which case I assume you get full papal ranking and the pope does whatever you ask him too, but only by replacing the pope with your own.
i believe azrael is referring the great schism in the church, were there were several popes active at one time. one of the pope was in avignon, france while another was in rome and i believe an actual third pope roamed around for a period of time.