“pope gregory I”

“gregorian mission”

(sent by pope gregory the “great” to convert the ‘anglo-saxons’ to ‘christianity’ in ‘596’)
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(“pope saint gregory I” (latin: gregorius I; c. ‘540’ – ’12 march 604′), commonly known as saint gregory the great, was ‘pope’ of the ‘catholic church’ from ‘3 september 590’ to his death in ‘604’)

(‘gregory’ is famous for instigating the first recorded large-scale mission from ‘rome’ to convert a ‘pagan people’ to ‘christianity’)

(‘gregory’ is also well-known for his ‘writings’, which were more ‘prolific’ than those of any of his ‘predecessors’ as ‘pope’)

(he is also known as the “great visionary of (the?) ‘modern educational system'”, for his ‘writings’ and ‘contribution’ to the ‘school system’ of ‘education’ instead of ‘apprenticeship-based learning’)

(the epithet saint gregory the dialogist has been attached to him in ‘eastern christianity’ because of his dialogues)

(for this reason, ‘english translations’ of ‘eastern texts’ will sometimes list him as gregory “dialogos” or the latinized equivalent “dialogus”)

(a senator’s son and himself the ‘prefect of rome’ at ‘age 30’, ‘gregory’ tried the ‘monastery’ but soon returned to ‘active public life’, ending his ‘life’ and the ‘century’ as ‘pope’)

(although he was the first pope from a ‘monastic background’, his prior political experiences may have helped him to be a ‘talented administrator’, who successfully established “papal supremacy”)

(during his ‘papacy’ his ‘administration’ greatly surpassed the ‘roman emperors’ in improving the ‘welfare’ of the people of ‘rome’, and successfully challenged the theological views of “patriarch eutychius of constantinople” before the emperor “tiberius II”)

(‘gregory’ regained ‘papal authority’ in ‘spain’ and ‘france’, and sent missionaries to ‘england’)

(the realignment of ‘barbarian allegiance’ to ‘rome’ from their ‘arian christian alliances’ shaped ‘medieval europe’)

(gregory saw ‘franks’, ‘lombards’, and ‘visigoths’ align with ‘rome’ in ‘religion’)

(throughout the “middle ages” he was known as “the father of christian worship” because of his exceptional efforts in revising the ‘roman worship’ of his day)

(his contributions to the development of the “divine liturgy of the ‘presanctified gifts'” (still in use in the “byzantine rite”), were so significant that he is generally recognized as its de facto author)

(‘gregory’ is a “doctor of the church” and one of the “latin fathers”)

(he is considered a ‘saint’ in the ‘catholic church’, ‘eastern orthodox church’, ‘anglican communion’, and some ‘lutheran churches’)

(immediately after his death, ‘gregory’ was ‘canonized’ by ‘popular acclaim’)

(the protestant reformer ‘john calvin’ admired ‘gregory’ and declared in his institutes that ‘gregory’ was the ‘last good pope’)

(he is the ‘patron saint’ of ‘musicians’, ‘singers’, ‘students’, and ‘teachers’)

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