Pope Gregory the Great was a reformer (someone who got the early Church back on track during tough times). He worked at showing the kings and rulers that they should not rule the Church and make the Church decisions, such as choosing the bishops. He was, in fact, one of the main starters of the reformation of the Catholic Church (although it took about 300 more years before this really started taking effect).
(from the Catholic Encyclopedia)
With admirable discernment, Gregory began his great work of purifying the Church by a reformation of the clergy. At his first Lenten Synod (March, 1074) he enacted the following decrees:
•That clerics who had obtained any grade or office of sacred orders by payment should cease to minister in the Church.
•That no one who had purchased any church should retain it, and that no one for the future should be permitted to buy or sell ecclesiastical rights.
•That all who were guilty of incontinence should cease to exercise their sacred ministry.
•That the people should reject the ministrations of clerics who failed to obey these injunctions.
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Pope St. Gregory the Great was pope for fourteen years from 590 to 604 A.D. In those fourteen years he accomplished so much as to stagger the mind. To this day, his name is still connected with Plain Song - Gregorian Chant. At the link below is the article Catholic Encyclopedia article on Pope St. Gregory the Great. If you scroll about half way down, you will see his accomplishments as Pope.
sent augustine along with 40 monks to england to get rid of paganism and to convert the saxon king to Christianity.
St. Gregory the Great Church was created in 1960.
Pope Gregory I
Gregory the Great
Pope Pelagius II was the predecessor of Pope Gregory I, the Great.
As Europe gradually emerged from the destruction of the Roman Empire, the church became one of the mainstays of civilization. During the pontificate of Gregory I the Great (590-604), the medieval papacy began to assert its authority. Gregory's achievement was to go beyond the claim of papal primacy in the church by beginning to establish the temporal power of the papacy.
Pope Gregory the Great did not write any songs. He did, however, collect and catalog the music being used at that time by the Church.
Pope Gregory the Great
Pope St. Gregory I, the Great.
The st.Andrews river protected the church during the great fire of 1901, and the church is famous for surviving the great fire.
Pope Gregory the Great did not write any songs. He did, however, collect and catalog the music being used at that time by the Church.
Gregory The Great was born in September 3, c.590 and died on march 12, 604. He was a pope from 3 September intill his death. He is considered a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.
No, Pope Gregory the Great .was also known as Pope Gregory I.