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| | Pope Gregory VII - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Gregory did this at a time when he himself was confronted by a reckless opponent in the person of Cencius, who on Christmas-night surprised him in church and carried him off as a prisoner, though on the following day Gregory was released. | | | Gregory VII did not introduce the celibacy of the priesthood into the Church, but he took up the struggle with greater energy than his predecessors. | | | Spain and Hungary were also claimed as her property, and an attempt was made to induce the king of Denmark to hold his realm as a fief from the pope. |
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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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| | Cultural Catholic - Pope Gregory VII |
| | Pope Gregory VII died in 1085 and was interred in Saint Matthew Church in Salerno. | | | In his Dictatus papae, Pope Gregory VII decreed the supremacy of the Church of Rome over other churches and over the empire; the supremacy of clerical authority over lay authority. | | | In 1076 during a dispute with Pope Gregory VII, King Henry IV was excommunicated costing him popularity with his people. |
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http://www.culturalcatholic.com/PopeGregoryVII.htm
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| | Gregory VII, Saint. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | Gregory saw the root of all the evils afflicting the church in the practice of lay investiture, whereby abbacies and bishoprics became virtually the property of secular powers, who used them to their own advantage. | | | During all his struggles Gregory kept a watchful eye on the developments of the church in Norway, Denmark, and in the new Slavic nations, and the troubles with the Saracens in the East led Gregory to conceive the first plan for a Crusade against the Turks. | | | Gregory’s contribution to the church is very great. |
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| | Pope Gregory VII (1020-1085) |
| | The keynote of Gregory's pontificate was reform and renewal of the church. | | | Gregory defended his actions against Henry in two letters to Bishop Hermann of Metz: the emperor is in the church and therefore he may be called to account by the pope. | | | Gregory's first concern was for reform, and he believed that secular rulers should support church authority in bringing it about. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Pope Gregory VII |
| | Gregory VII, Saint (circa 1020-85), pope (1073-85), one of the great reformers of the medieval church. |
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| | Pope Saint Gregory VII |
| | Gregory believed that this compromised the Church and he, therefore, made it known to Henry that only those who were deemed by the pope to be fit for such a sacred office should be so consecrated. | | | On Christmas Eve in 1075, as the pope was distributing Holy Communion at Midnight Mass, a gang of hoodlums came into the Church, took Gregory captive and demanded surrender of church property. | | | In spite of his personal feelings of weakness, Gregory was unflinching in working hard to rid the Church of the two great evils which afflicted it, simony and clerical incontinency. |
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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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| | Pope St. Gregory VII |
| | At a meeting of the German lords, spiritual and temporal, held at Tibur in October, 1076, the election of a new emperor was canvassed. | | | With admirable discernment, Gregory began his great work of purifying the Church by a reformation of the clergy. | | | The Norman leader, Robert Guiscard, however, maintained a suspicious attitude towards the pope, and at the Lenten Synod (1075) Gregory solemnly excommunicated him for his sacrilegious invasion of the territory of the Holy See (Capun and Benevento). |
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| | Reviews in History: Pope Gregory VII. 1073-1085 |
| | Gregory wanted Germany locked into his preferred world-scheme, in which kings had str ong authority, inheriting their kingdom undivided (he urged the king of Norway not to divide his kingdom between sons), forming a political matrix for the church, but - the big 'but' in Henry's case - not directly involved in its government. | | | Anyone doubting Gregory's capacity for tactical somersaults in the matter of clerical and secular spheres of activity can turn to a letter of 1074, suggesting that Gregory, as pope, lead an army to rescue Byzantium from the Turks, and the king is to look after the Roman church while the pope is away. | | | Where Gregory the Great had diffused his faith largely by p reaching and dispatching missionaries, Gregory VII sought to reactivate the church as a structure, which he saw currently sunk into near-identity with secular society. |
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| | Part IV - The Middle Ages: Lesson No. 20 - The Political Papacy |
| | Gregory VII's principles were that the Roman bishop had universal sovereignty, could depose or reinstate bishops (and he alone), could depose emperors, could be judged of no one, and could release subjects from their allegiance to wicked men. | | | The time was quickly approaching when popes could rightly claim to be, not only spiritual leaders, but also temporal rulers, and the highest ranking ones at that. | | | Furthermore, the synod provided that the pope could come from anywhere in the Church, could be elected outside Rome, and could assume papal powers immediately upon election. |
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| | The Story of Mankind - Pope vs. Emperor (Hendrik van Loon) |
| | Gregory had claimed that the Popes were superior to all kings because they (the Popes) at the Day of Judgement would be responsible for the behaviour of all the sheep of their flock, and in the eyes of God, a king was one of that faithful herd. | | | In the mind of Gregory, the Pope was not only the absolute head of the Christian church, but also the highest Court of Appeal in all worldly matters. | | | In the year 1073 the College of Cardinals elected a priest by the name of Hildebrand, the son of very simple parents in Tuscany, as Pope, and he took the name of Gregory VII. |
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| | Gregory VII - definition of Gregory VII by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | Pope (1073-1085) who sought to establish the supremacy of the pope within the Church and the authority of the Church over the state. | | | Gregory VII - the pope who fought to establish the supremacy of the pope over the Church and the supremacy of the Church over the state (1020-1085) | | | Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, Pontiff, Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ - the head of the Roman Catholic Church |
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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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| | Saints of May 25 |
| | In large measure, Gregory was successful in rejuvenating the Church, and the reforms of his pontificate marked a turning point in the history of the Church. | | | The son of a poor carpenter, Gregory was baptized Hildebrand. | | | Saint Gregory has been criticized in past generations as an ambitious tyrant, even being called 'Holy Satan.' He is now generally recognized as having pursued an uncompromising policy that was driven by a desire for justice. |
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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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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Gregory VII: Dictatus Papae 1090 |
| | That of the pope alone all princes shall kiss the feet. | | | 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. | | | That his name alone shall be spoken in the churches. |
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| | May 25 Saint |
| | She was proclaimed a saint by Pope Clement IX in 1669. | | | The first thing Pope St. Gregory did was to spend several days in prayer. | | | That is why I am dying in exile." He was proclaimed a saint by Pope Paul V in 1606. |
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| | Gregory VII "Hildebrand" |
| | The methods used by Gregory were equal to the general corruption: He claimed the right to interfere in any secular or spiritual affair of any country in Europe. | | | "If the Pope is supreme in spiritual things," he arrogantly pronounced, "he had all the greater right to intervene in the smaller matters which are called temporal." He and his church officers freely used forgeries in establishing his authority. | | | The tenth century, the saddest, perhaps, in Christian annals, is characterized by the vivid remark of Baronius that Christ was as if asleep in the vessel of the Church. |
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| | Pope Gregory VII (1073-1085) |
| | As pope, he fought vigorously for—and achieved—clerical reform and a separation between the secular and ecclesiastical authorities. | | | Peter Damian even referred to him as “my holy Satan.” He came to power at a time when the papacy was struggling to reform itself and the clergy, and his talents helped shape the legacies of the five popes who preceded him. | | | Gregory VII (1073-1085) set the papacy on a course that his predecessors would have thought unthinkable, and his successors saw as inevitable. |
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| | GF MetaSearch : Pope+Gregory+VII |
| | Short biography of the eleventh-century bishop of Passau, driven from his see for enforcing Pope Gregory VII's call for clerical celibacy. | | | Brief biography of Pope St. Gregory VII, by Karen Rae Keck. | | | Read about pope gregory vii in the free online encyclopedia and dictionary. |
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| | Anglican Theological Review: Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 |
| | Cowdrey explains why the Dictatus Papae of 1075 (an early point in Gregory's papacy), though its twenty-seven blunt theses sound very dogmatic, cannot be considered a "final and definitive statement of Gregory's conception of papal authority" (p. | | | But he did urge Christians in Sicily to live virtuously so as to earn some respect from Muslims, and in a striking letter to the emir of Bougie in North Africa, who was friendly to Christians, Gregory stresses beliefs that Christians and Muslims have in common. | | | Chapter 8, "Gregorian Ideas" (90 pages), traces his basic religious outlook, his views of papal authority, lay investiture, chastity, and his understanding of the demands of Christianity. |
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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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| | 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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| | New Catholic Dictionary: Pope Saint Gregory VII; Hildebrand |
| | Henry's antipope, Guibert of Ravenna, was driven from Rome by the pope with the aid of the Normans, but the excesses of the latter caused the Roman people to banish Gregory to Salerno, where he died. | | | Henry was summoned to Rome and his supporters deposed Gregory, who excommunicated him. | | | His consequent submission to Gregory at Canossa is well known, but his penitence was short-lived and he was again excommunicated. |
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| | Pope Gregory VII and Liberty |
| | The members of Christ, on the other hand, fight to bring back those same wretches into Christian freedom. | | | Translated by Ephraim Emerton, The Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII (New York 1932) 179; cited by Brian Tierney, "Freedom and the Medieval Church," |
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| | St. Gregory VII, Pope |
| | Saint Gregory VII was a monk of Cluny (named Hildebrand before ascending to the papacy in 1073), he fought against the abuse of lay investiture, a major source of evils from which the Church was suffering. | | | His energetic stance as Pope Gregory VII earned for him the enmity of the Emperor Henry IV. | | | He was exiled to Salerno, where he died in 1085. |
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| | Pope Gregory VII Is Not A Revolutionary |
| | Before Gregory VII, the doctrine of royal theocracy justified lay investiture, thus making lay investiture acceptable to clergymen as well as to royalty. | | | This is true in the case of Pope Gregory VII (aka Hildebrand). | | | Henry III had been very generous with many bishops, g |
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| | Church History: Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085.@ HighBeam Research |
| | The title of this formidable book is simply Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085. | | | Anyone familiar with this important pope, whose name is often seen as synonymous with the eleventh-century reform movement, will be well aware that there was absolutely nothing simple about Gregory VII. | | | Nor indeed is the book simply about Gregory himself, but it also contains resonating discussions that shed light on the social, political, intellectual, and religious "revolutions" that characterize the... |
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| | Find in a Library: Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 |
| | Find in a Library: Pope Gregory VII, 1073-1085 | | | Subjects: Gregory -- VII, -- Pope, -- ca. | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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| | The Correspondence of Pope Gregory VII; ; |
| | Emerton’s introduction [is] useful, both for setting Gregory into the framework of eleventh century ecclesiastical reform and for a diplomatic orientation to the Register and the survival of Gregory’s correspondence." | | | "The zeal and vigor with which Gregory defined and pursued reforming policies. |
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| | Pope Gregory Vii quotes |
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