I noticed that at the Old Gods start the Pentarchy of Rome is a Holy Order. Looking at the mod files I found out that all the other Pentarchs are Holy Orders too. Is this intentional? If it is, why aren't they theocracies?
What's the issue with papal elections? Depending on what happens with them, I may leave the patriarchs as holy orders.This is a side effect of Papal elections gone haywire. You can change them back in common\landed_titles\01_religion_heads.txt, at the risk of other issues.
Issues like this were the reason we decided on rewriting the entire thing.