The Pope

[Navajo Joe]

My Cardinal in my Knights Templar campaign has been elected to Pope and another Priest made to Cardinal. Is there any benefit to me in this event or have I just lost a goodman?

[Badg3r]

if one of your cardinals is elected, your favour with the paupacy goes up loads, often to full
however, the same can happen if an allied faction's cardinal is elected, so i useualy do that to keep as may men of god as i can

[caralampio]

And the boost in relations is temporary, the new Pope can forget his former allegiance real fast and get angry with you, just like any other Pope.

Whenever I see that there is a good chance for an allied cardinal to get elected I vote for him and keep my loyal cardinal.

[The Noble Lord]

Take as many advantages as you can from "your" Pope.
He may die or get assassinated, therefore move fast.

[obbob]

usually the pope will die of old age since barely anyone goes to war with him...and even when they do he has like 5 stacks of papal and swiss guard sitting around rome. Also, the AI sucks at assassination, so that will probably never happen