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  2. In the late 6th century, the Catholic church did not have a cogent hierarchical order headed by Rome, and no evidence exists that Gregory held such a vision. Because St. Peter , the founder of the Roman church, was the first among the apostles, Gregory asserted Rome’s right to judge on certain moral issues, but he made no claims of Roman ...

  3. Gregory’s mind and memory were both exceptionally receptive, and it is to the effect produced on him by these disasters that we must attribute the tinge of sadness which pervades his writings and especially his clear expectation of a speedy end to the world. Of his education we have no details.

  4. 4 days ago · Tirelessly, he admonished priests and bishops to give their very selves to their people. The bishop, like the priest, was in his eyes a servant, and he was a servant humbler still. The “servant of the servants of God,” he called himself – a title and a measure that remained for every Pope after him.

  5. Doctor of the Church ; born at Rome about 540; died 12 March 604. Gregory is certainly one of the most notable figures inEcclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and thediscipline of the Catholic Church.

  6. In the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches, Gregory is credited as the primary influence in constructing the more penitential Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts, a fully separate form of the Divine Liturgy in the Byzantine Rite adapted to the needs of the season of Great Lent.

  7. Doctor of the Church; born at Rome about 540; died 12 March 604. Gregory. is certainly one of the most notable figures in Ecclesiastical History. He has exercised in many respects a momentous influence on the doctrine, the organization, and the discipline of the Catholic Church.

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