At least one head of a Panteonic church should be a layperson - a commoner, aristocrat, expert or somesuch.
UPDATE: At least I would finally have a use for all of those 20th level commoners. This would be most common in those religions which are not that attractive to adventurers, so no pool of spellcasting priests and clerics to draw from.
Some could be revered as living saints, real priests of the people.
Some, in fact, could be jealous of the flashier spellcasters in the clergy.
Others could be public-relations-type, "face-men" for churches.
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