Did you seriously ask this and not realize it proves how absurd the current situation is? If we accept the story, Jesus was executed for challenging the authority of the Roman state and the Jewish religeon. Believe me if the game mechanics supported executing Jonsu it would have been done the day after this all started.
The rise of Christianity is a terrible analogy. Notice how there are still synagogs in the world? Christianity is a religion that branched off from Judaism and eventually grew larger and more influential. It did not usurped and replaced Judaism.
What happened in SA is the equivalent of the ranking Pharasee declaring Peter the new head of the Jewish Faith and every single temple and synagog going along with it in spite of protests from every single other Pharasee and Rabbi in the entire religion.
If Jonsu had gone out and founded a new sect and it gained traction that would be perfectly legitimate but she didn't. She tried and failed twice because no one wanted to follow her because it was obvious to just about everyone she was a sociopath who only wanted power and would say or do anything to get it.
It's patently absurd to think she would have any authority in the church when the entire clergy and noble membership is dead set against her.
Well that depends, first was he already a convicted heretic? Second did the previous pope just declare him pope or was he elected by the Cardinals?
he favoured Monothelitism, though never made a decree that institutionalised it. When that doctrine was later declared heretical he was anathematised along with them. From my reading originally it was because he followed them in the faith. However it would appear that later debates about the infallibility of the Pope he was instead said to be anathematised not for following that belief himself, but for allowing the teaching to persist along side the orthodox view.
In Theory at that time the Pope was not declared by the cardinals, but a gathering of the clergy and sons of the Church (noblemen) and it then was ratified by the Byzantine Emperor. The current system had it roots in the 13th century.
