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 Pope Gregory I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gregory was born to a patrician and thoroughly Christian Roman family (father, Gordianus, and mother, Silvia) that owned latifundia in the south and a domus on the Caelian Hill, the foundations of which support the Church of St. Andrew and St. Gregory.
Illumination in a 12th century manuscript of a letter of Gregory's to Saint Leander, bishop of Seville (Bibl.
Gregory expressed the difficulty and danger of his position in some of the earliest letters (Epistles I, iii, viii, xxx); but no actual hostilities began until the summer of 592, when a threatening letter from Ariulf of Spoleto was followed by the appearance of the Lombard before the walls of Rome.
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 Pope Gregory VII
Gregory ventured on these audacious measures at a time when he himself was confronted by a reckless opponent in the person of Cencius, who on Christmas-night did not scruple to surprise him in church and carry him off as a prisoner, though on the following day he was obliged to surrender his captive.
The communication of these decisions to the pope was undertaken by the priest Roland of Parma, and he was fortunate enough to gain an opportunity for speech in the synod, which had barely assembled in the Lateran church, and there to deliver his message announcing the dethronement of the pontiff.
That energy which Gregory threw into the expansion of the papal authority, and which brought him into collision with the secular powers, was manifested no less in the internal government of the church.
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 Pope Gregory IX - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Frederick went to the Holy Land and skirmished with the Saracens to fulfill his vow, but was soon back in Italy, where Gregory had taken advantage of his absence by invading his territories.
The suspension was followed by excommunication and threats of deposition, as deeper rifts appeared— Frederick's control of the Sicilian Church, his feudal obligations to the pope, even his continued presence in Sicily.
1143 – Rome, August 22, 1241), pope from 1227 to 1241, the successor of Honorius III, fully inherited the traditions of Gregory VII and of his uncle Innocent III, and zealously continued their policy of Papal supremacy.
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 Gregory VII and the Politics of the Spirit
Gregory would have said: to the freedom of the Church, an ecclesia libera, casta, et catholica, a Church that is free, pure, and catholic.
Because Christ had given the rule of the Church to one man, Gregory reasoned that the Church was not a communion of local churches; it was a universal fellowship apostolic in origin and catholic in scope.
Gregory’s letters reproach the King with pronouncements on the freedom of the Church.
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 Encyclopedia: Pope Gregory XIII
The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Catholic Church.
Saint Peter, portrayed by Peter Paul Rubens in a papal chasuble and pallium holding keys, was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus and the first Pope of the Catholic Church.
Once in the chair of Saint Peter, he put aside his rather worldly concerns and dedicated himself to reform of the Roman Catholic Church.
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 ST. GREGORY II
Pope Gregory held a synod at Rome which stated the traditional teaching of the Church.
In 718 Pope Gregory received Winfred, a zealous young English monk who sought his blessing on a mission to the Germans.
The Pope gave him not only a blessing but a name glorious in the annals of Christianity--Boniface.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory XIII
Thus Gregory XIII at least partly restored the old faith in England and the northern countries of Europe, supplied the Catholics in those countries with their necessary priests, and introduced Christianity into the pagan countries of Eastern Asia.
But from the time he became pope he followed in the footsteps of his holy predecessor, and was thoroughly imbued with the consciousness of the great responsibility connected with his exalted position.
Gregory XIII spared no efforts to restore the Catholic Faith in the countries that had become Protestant.
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 Pope Gregory the Great & the Universal Papacy
Gregory the Great condemned the title universal bishop in the sense of meaning that all other bishops are not really bishops, but mere agents of the one Bishop, a concept that is blatantly contrary to Catholic teaching, which holds that all bishops are by divine institution true successors of the Apostles.
Pope St. Gregory the Great, like St. John Chrysostom two centuries earlier, and Pope St. Leo the Great 150 years earlier (arguably with even more force and vigor), states the Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy in many passages of his letters.
Behold, he received the keys of the kingdom of heaven, the power to bind and loose was given to him, and the care and principality of the entire church was committed to him.
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 christdesert: ST. GREGORY THE GREAT
Gregory's reputation as a Doctor of the Church rests on the insights he brought to his studies of spiritual life.
A monk himself, the first to be elected pope, his Anglo-Saxon Mission under the leadership of St. Augustine of Canterbury, would eventually result in the conversion of England to Catholicism and the subsequent introduction of the Rule of St.
However, his overall understanding of scripture had a profound influence on the intellectual and spiritual climate of the middle ages, and his reputation in the Church can be attested to by the critical attention paid his works even in our post-Vatican II era.
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 Pope Gregory VII - Sketches of Church History
Gregory, therefore, ordered that no bishop should take investiture from any sovereign, and that no sovereign should give investiture; and out of this grew a quarrel which lasted fifty years, and was the cause of grievous troubles in the Church.
Another thing an which Gregory set his heart, as a means of increasing the power of the popes, was to do away with what was called "Investiture." This was the name of the form by which princes gave bishops possession of the estates and other property belonging to their sees.
But when the popes called themselves "Universal Bishops," they meant that they were bishops of the whole church, and that all other bishops were under them.
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 CIN - St. Gregory the Great by St. Bede the Venerable
Gregory ruled the Church during the reigns of the Emperors Maurice and Phocas, and in the second year of the latter's reign he passed from this life and entered the true life of heaven.
Gregory was Roman-born, son of Gordian, and came of a noble and devout family.
Gregory also wrote a notable book, The Pastoral Office, in which he describes in clear terms the qualities essential in those who rule the Church, showing how they should live; how they should carefully instruct all their people; and how they should always bear in mind their own frailty.
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 ST. GREGORY VII
Gregory's legates persuaded the nobles to give Henry a chance to repent before deposing him.
Now the root of abuse was the way kings and lords appointed bishops and abbots by lay investiture.
Pious, bursting with energy, and gifted with administrative ability, the little monk was to become a great pope.
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 Pope St. Gregory the Great and the "Universal Bishop" Question
Note that Pope St. Gregory the Great was not rejecting the title itself; rather he was saying the use of it to dismiss other bishops‘ titles was very wrong.
Opponents of the Catholic Church sometimes make the accusation that Pope Saint Gregory the Great (reigned 590-604) rejected the new title of "universal bishop" during his pontificate, calling it a "title smacking of blasphemy".
We shall see that in actual fact Pope St.Gregory the Great did not have any problem with the title itself, merely the way in which it was meant to be used by the person who coined the term, namely, the then Bishop of Constantinople, "Fasting John".
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 How Great was Pope Gregory "the Great"
As one of the "good popes," Gregory was "Great" as a patron of the Roman Church, but less than salutary as a patron of human civilization.
According to Bishop John of Salisbury, Gregory burned the last surviving books of pagan Rome and, from his extensive output of letters, we learn that Gregory reprimanded a bishop of Gaul for working to restore education there.
His rather convenient belief that the end of the world was imminent aided him in persuading wealthy landowners to leave large estates, and vast numbers of slaves, to the Catholic Church.
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 Pope St. Gregory VII
Henry then announced that he intended to oust the pope in favor of a bishop of his own choosing.
Consequently, in 1075, Gregory issued a decree forbidding any rulers to invest clerics in church office.
The clergy widely ignored the rule of celibacy, and simony (the "sale" of church positions) was rampant.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pope Gregory XIV
Gregory XIV also appointed a commission to revise the Sixtine Bible and another commission to continue the revision of the Pian Breviary.
When Gregory XIV became pope, Henry had not yet fulfilled his promise and gave little hope of doing it in the near future.
In order to reconcile the nobility and the people to his reign, Henry declared on 4 August, 1589, that he would become a Catholic and uphold the Catholic religion in France.
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 St. Gregory III
Not unnaturally angry, Gregory was going to degrade George from the priesthood, but the clergy of a synod held to consider the situation, persuaded the Pope to let George off with a penance.
The Pope granted the request of Egbert of York that he should be made archbishop, thus restoring to England the two metropolitan sees planned by Gregory the Great.
Gregory asked Boniface's cousin, the holy monk Willibald, to help in the conversion of the Germans.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory VII: Dictatus Papae 1090
That of the pope alone all princes shall kiss the feet.
That his name alone shall be spoken in the churches.
That the Roman pontiff, if he have been canonically ordained, is undoubtedly made a saint by the merits of St. Peter; St. Ennodius, bishop of Pavia, bearing witness, and many holy fathers agreeing with him.
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 Pope Gregory's Calendar Changes
Gregory took this advice and shortened October of A.D. 1582 by ten days.
By then, in order to stay in sync with nations that had already adopted Gregory's changes, the switch involved eliminating eleven days from the old Julian Calendar.
Aloysius Lilius and others urged Gregory to complete the Trent recommendations.
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 His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII
His Holiness Pope Gregory XVII, in the world Clemente Dominguez y Gomez, named after his predecessor Pope Saint Clement I, was born in Spain in the beautiful, historic, artistic and Marian City of Seville on the 23rd April 1946.
This Pope, who is at the same time future military Leader and Emperor, chosen by God to carry out an immense task in the Church and in the world, enshrines a profound apocalyptic mystery.
THE MARTYR POPE, PAUL VI The greater part of the Cardinals, Bishops and Priests have apostatized.
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 Camelot Village: Britain's Heritage and History
In 1077 Henry went to the pope at Canossa and asked to be forgiven.
In 1075 Gregory said Henry had no right to choose any of the bishops.
The quarrel over choosing bishops was finally settled in 1122.
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 Catholic Online - Saints & Angels - Pope Saint Gregory III
As a holy man, he must have been praying for Gregory II and for all the people around him to find their place after death in God's arms.
As a learned man, he must have wondered who would follow the holy Saint Gregory II as Pope and where he would take the Church.
Take a stand: The next time you here someone say something that indicates religious, racial, gender, or any other kind of prejudice, take a stand and make it clear that such prejudice is not tolerated by God or God's people.
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 Gregory the Great, Bishop and Doctor
English-speaking Christians will remember Gregory for sending a party of missionaries headed by Augustine of Canterbury (not to be confused with the more famous Augustine of Hippo) to preach the Gospel to the pagan Anglo-Saxon tribes that had invaded England and largely conquered or displaced the Celtic Christians previously living there.
I here mention something that was not Gregory's doing, but is an important part of Church history.
Gregory was born around 540, of a politically influential family, and in 573 he became Prefect of Rome; but shortly afterwards he resigned his office and began to live as a monk.
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See also my study, 'The Holiness of Gregory'.
As of 18 September 1994, only the first book is in HTML with footnotes to click on; the others appear in a rougher, all-ASCII form, with the footnotes missing.
His most ambitious work and one of the most popular works of scriptural exegesis in the middle ages was the Moralia in Iob, commenting the book of Job in 35 books running to over half a million words.
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 Medieval Sourcebook: Pope Gregory II - Appeal to Charles Martel
In our great affliction we have thought it necessary to write to you a second time, believing that you are a loving son of St. Peter, the prince of apostles, and of ourselves, and that out of reverence for him you would obey our commands to defend the church of God and his chosen people.
Here is a letter of 739 in which Pope Gregory III (731 - 741) appeals to the Frankish ruler Charles Martel for help against the Lombards in Italy.
Pope Gregory to His Most Excellent Son, Karl, Sub-King
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 Patron Saints Index: Pope Saint Gregory VII
At the time of his ascension, simony and a corrupt clergy threatened to destroy faith in the Church.
from a letter by Pope Saint Gregory VII
The Pope retreated to Salerno where he spent the remainder of his papacy.
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 Pope Gregory XV -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
He was the last Pope (Click link for more info and facts about elected) elected by (Enthusiastic approval) acclamation (as if inspired by the Holy Spirit).
Some text from the ninth edition (1880) of the (Click link for more info and facts about Encyclopædia Britannica) Encyclopædia Britannica.
Pope Gregory XV [Categories: Popes, 1623 deaths, 1554 births]
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 Pope Gregory X - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Not wanting to leave his mission, his first action as Pope was to send out appeals for aid to the Crusaders, and at his final sermon at Acre just before leaving to sail for Italy he famously said "If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning."
This biography of a Pope is a stub.
On his arrival at Rome his first act was to summon the council which met at the Second Council of Lyons in 1274 for the purpose of considering the East-West Schism, the condition of the Holy Land, and the abuses of the Catholic Church.
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 Pope Gregory XVI - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In 1800 he became a member of the Academy of the Catholic Religion, founded by Pope Pius VII, to which he contributed a number of memoirs on theological and philosophical questions, and in 1805 was made abbot of San Gregorio on the Caelian Hill.
The embarrassed financial condition in which Gregory left the States of the Church makes it doubtful how far his lavish expenditure in architectural and engineering works, and his magnificent patronage of learning in the hands of Mai, Mezzofanti, Gaetano, Moroni and others, were for the real benefit of his subjects.
The years of his pontificate were marked by the steady development and diffusion of those ultramontane ideas which were ultimately formulated, under the presidency of his successor Pope Pius IX, by the First Vatican Council.
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 Gregory XIII
He especially patronized the Jesuits, whom he encouraged on their many missions, particularly in N Europe and in Japan.
Two wise men look at the church.(ARTS & CULTURE)(Amazing Church by Gregory Baum)(Book Review) (Catholic New Times)
As pope, Gregory's absorbing interests were the education of the clergy and the conversion of Protestants.
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 The Ecole Glossary
1020 in Tuscany, Pope/St. Gregory VII was one of the great church reformers.
When Gregory VI died in 1047, Hildebrand entered a monastery where he remained until Leo IX called him to Rome to serve as treasurer of the church.
Gregory died in Salerno in 1085, and Paul V canonized him in 1606.
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 Pope Gregory XII: Information From Answers.com
The rest of Gregory's life was spent in peaceful obscurity in Ancona.
The cardinals of Gregory XII openly showed their dissatisfaction at his procedure and gave signs of their intention to abandon him.
Gregory XII, who had meanwhile created ten more cardinals, had convoked a rival council at Cividale del Friuli, near Aquileia; though only a few bishops had appeared, Gregory's cardinals pronounced Benedict XIII and Alexander V schismatics, perjurers, and devastators of the Church.
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 Pope_Gregory_V
His successor was Gerbert, who took the name Sylvester II.
Robert II of France, who had been insisting on his right to appoint bishops, was ultimately forced to back down, and ultimately also to put aside his wife Bertha, by the rigorous enforcement of a sentence of excommunication on the kingdom.
Until the council of Pavia (997) Gregory had a rival in the person of the antipope John XVI, whom Crescentius and the nobles of Rome had chosen, in revolt against the will of the youthful emperor Otto III, Gregory's cousin.
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 Pope Gregory II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
He died in 731, and subsequently attained the honour of canonization, February 13th being the day consecrated to his memory in the Martyrology.
Saint Gregory II, pope from 715 or 716 to February 11, 731, succeeded Pope Constantine, his election being variously dated May 19, 715, and March 21, 716.
Having, it is said, bought off the Lombards for thirty pounds of gold, he used the tranquillity thus obtained for vigorous missionary efforts in Germany, and for strengthening the papal authority in the churches of England and Ireland.
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