Even today, in the debate about whether Gays and Lesbians can be priests. If the main church votes to allow that, but the local priest does not, they will break their church away from the main church and form their own splinter group.
If everyone thinks its fine for someone who was excommunicated from the faith, to be able to be the head of that faith with none of the power structures available to SA able to block or undo this action in any way, then Priests should be able to protest by removing their temples from the influence and control of the main religion.
That must be why there are thousands of catholic churches splitting off every year to be their own independant protestant church.
Oh wait...
