Polites wrote:I only very recently gained leadership in the Church, so I never RPd it until recently. But from what I can tell, the governance of the SPC was in the past done in a consensual manner. Martin became a sort of unofficial leader of the Church and invariably RPd the Arch-Patriarch whenever such RP was needed, and there never seemed to be any objection (not even when he IC declared characters belonging to SelCru, the original creator of the org, guilty of heresy).
For the record, I never declared SelCru's characters specifically heretical or pronounced excommunication against them. All I did was having Arch-Patriarch Justus III declare Hosio-Felinism a heresy ex cathedra, but he never sanctioned the heretics (I always assumed the orthodox hierarchs in the Selucian and Barmenian Provinces would take care of that, I guess). The only Archipatriarchal sanction I ever handed down at the head of the SPC was the continuous assertion that the TPC was first not a Church and, further down the line, not Hosian, and that the TPC's Sacrifices were invalid because of it (witness the fact that Father Vaclav Ivaneyev had to be re-baptised when he became SPC, even though the Sacrifice of Water is supposed to be universal).
