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Gregory the Patrician (Greek: Γρηγόριος, romanized: Grēgórios; Latin: Flavius Gregorius, died 647) was a Byzantine Exarch of Africa (modern Tunisia, eastern Algeria and western Libya). A relative of the ruling Heraclian dynasty , Gregory was fiercely pro- Chalcedonian and led a rebellion in 646 against Emperor Constans II over the ...
In 646, the exarch Gregory the Patrician launched a rebellion against Emperor Constans II. The obvious reason was the latter's support for Monothelitism, but it undoubtedly was also a reaction to the Muslim conquest of Egypt, and the threat it presented to Byzantine Africa.
[1]: 94–5 Not to be confused with Nicetas the Patrician. 629–647 Gregory the Patrician: Flavius Gregorius: Γρηγόριος, Φλάβιος Γρηγόριος (Grēgorios, Flabios Grēgorios) n/a Led a revolt against the Emperor Constans II. He was the son of Heraclius' cousin Niketas. [6] [7] 647–665 Gennadius (II) Gennadius
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
In Rome, the pope appeared with increasing frequency in political negotiations; Pope Leo I negotiated with kings Attila of the Huns and Geiserich of the Vandals, and Pope Gelasius I with king Theodoric of the Ostrogoths. Cassiodorus, as praefectus praetorio under the Ostrogothic supremacy, entrusted the care of temporal affairs to Pope John II.
The Liber beatae Gregorii papae ('book of the blessed Pope Gregory'), often known in English as the Anonymous Life of Gregory the Great, is a hagiography of Pope Gregory I composed by an anonymous monk or nun at a Northumbrian monastery, usually thought to have been at Whitby, around 700.
The son of a Roman patrician called John, Gregory was apparently an energetic but mild churchman, renowned for his learning. [2] Consecrated a priest during the pontificate of Pope Paschal I, at the time of Pope Valentine’s death in 827, Gregory was the cardinal priest of the Basilica of St Mark in Rome. [3]
Pope Gregory III (Latin: Gregorius III; died 28 November 741) was the bishop of Rome from 11 February 731 to his death on 28 November 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by Byzantine iconoclasm and the advance of the Lombards , in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel , although ultimately in vain.