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- He is also known as Gregory Dialogus (the Dialogist) in Eastern Orthodoxy because of the Dialogues he wrote. Gregory was one of the last popes not to have changed his name when elected to the papacy.
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Aug 27, 2024 · Saint Gregory the Great, pope from 590 to 604, considered the founder of the medieval papacy, which exercised both secular and spiritual power. Both a writer and a reformer, he was the fourth and final of the traditional Latin Fathers of the Church and expounded a sacramental spirituality.
Early life. Gregory was born around 540 [b] in Rome, then recently reconquered by the Eastern Roman Empire from the Ostrogoths. His parents named him Gregorius, which according to Ælfric of Eynsham in An Homily on the Birth-Day of S. Gregory, "is a Greek Name, which signifies in the Latin Tongue, Vigilantius, that is in English, Watchful". [11] .
Born in Rome circa 540, he was named Gregory Anicius and grew up in a wealthy family. His father was both the Prefect in the City of Rome and a senator. His mother was a wealthy woman named Silvia who would later become a saint. Gregory also has a sister named Pateria.
Gregory was one of the last popes not to have changed his name when elected to the papacy. A senator's son and himself the governor of Rome at 30, Gregory tried the monastery but soon returned to active public life, ending his life and the century as pope.
Sep 2, 2021 · Pope Gregory I, commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was Pope from September 3, 590 to 12 March 604 AD. He is famous for initiating the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian Mission, to convert the then-pagan Anglo-Saxons in England to Christianity.
Aug 8, 2008 · In 577 Pope Benedict appointed Gregory one of the seven deacons of Rome, and Pope Pelagius II sent him to Constantinople in 578 as representative to the imperial court, then later recalled...
Aug 7, 2015 · After plague broke out in Rome and Pope Pelagius was one of its victims, Gregory was unanimously elected pope. He was about 50, and the first monk to be elected pope. But he was also the civil ruler of Rome, negotiating treaties, paying troops and appointing generals.
