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Autonomous Churches: Royal Authority over the Divine

Have you ever been annoyed with the Pope, but didn't want to entirely break from the Catholic Church by forming custom religion? Than this mod is to provide that.

"Autonomous Churches" adds an option for rulers of religions with specific doctrines to "Establish Ecclesiastical Autonomy", that is to designate your court chaplain as the head of the Realm Church, allowing you to access from him interactions normally reserved for Religious Heads (Pope, etc.), while increasing the acceptance chance.
However you will suffer some drawbacks, like reduced opinion of zealot vassals and increased Holy War costs.

The mod is rather vague, but it is supposed to represent things like "Gallicanism" in France, or to a degree, Anti-Papacies (and I recommend using "Custom Title from of Address" mod for renaming your Church Heads).

As far as I know Catholic Trinity mod adds an extensive system of Anti-Papacy, however the Catholic Trinity is very extensive mod in itself, making it hard to maintain compatibility when using other mods.
That's why I've decided to create something simpler, and the only major vanilla element that Autonomous Churches overwrite is Court Chaplain entry in councillors files

Know issues:
- One known, theoretically potential issue although very unlikely is that if ruler with his own church gets subjugated and the subjugator also has autonomous church than there will be two church titles, in the same realm, but the special interactions are assigned to court chaplain position, and I ensured that he will collect the second title, which minimises the impact of the issue.

And please let me know if you find any possible bugs or oversights, the mod was quite tricky to code so there may be some.

Now Chinese Translation is included in this mod: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3403925213