Pope Gregory I - Article Index

Encyclopedia - Pope Gregory I: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope Gregory I - Lombards
Gregory's independent action in appointing governors to cities, providing munitions of war, giving instructions to generals, sending amba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 600: Encyclopedia - 600
600 - Environmental change. The population of the Earth rises to about 208 million people. Smallpox arrives in Europe for the first ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity
This article is about the ancient form of Christianity in Britain and Ireland, which was addressed at the Synod of Whitby[citation needed...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerome: Encyclopedia - Jerome
Saint Jerome (ca. 347 – September 30, 420), (full name Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus) is best known as the translator of the Bible fro...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pontifex Maximus: Encyclopedia - Pontifex Maximus
Roman Mythology Jupiter Mars Quirinus Divus Julius Divus Augustus Juno Vesta Minerva Mercury Vulcan Ceres Venus Diana Lares Fortuna ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia - Pope
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sneeze: Encyclopedia - Sneeze
A sneeze is the semi-autonomous, convulsive expulsion of air from the nose and mouth. An unimpeded sneeze sends two to five thousand bact...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bede: Encyclopedia - Bede
Bede (Latin Beda), also known as Saint Bede or, more commonly, the Venerable Bede (ca. 672 – May 27, 735), was a monk at the Northumbri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Augustine Of Canterbury: Encyclopedia - Augustine Of Canterbury
Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, 604) was the first Archbishop of Canterbury, sent to Ethelbert of Kent, Bretwalda of...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia - Old English Language
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia - Bishop
History of Christianity Jesus of Nazareth The Apostles Ecumenical councils Great Schism The Crusades Reformation The Trinity God the Fath...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - September 3: Encyclopedia - September 3
September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years). There are 119 days remaining. September 3 - Events. 36 BC - In the bat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angles: Encyclopedia - Angles
Angles (German: Angeln, Old English: Englas, Latin: singular Anglus, plural Anglii) were Germanic people, from Angeln in Schleswig, who s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lammas: Encyclopedia - Lammas
In English-speaking countries, August 1 is Lammas Day (loaf-mass day), the festival of the first wheat harvest of the year. On this day i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope Gregory: Encyclopedia - Pope Gregory
Pope Gregory has been the name of sixteen Roman Catholic Popes: Pope Gregory I, also called Gregory the Great Pope Gregory II Pope Grego...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Purgatory: Encyclopedia - Purgatory
The term purgatory is generally defined as "the means by which the elect reach perfection before entering into the Kingdom of Heaven". Th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 604: Encyclopedia - 604
Events April 13 - Sabinianus becomes Pope, succeeding Gregory I. September 13 - Pope Sabinianus is consecrated. Saint Laurence becomes A...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 601: Encyclopedia - 601
601 - Events. The future Archbishops of Canterbury, Mellitus, Justus, and Honorius, and the future Archbishop of York Paulinus, are se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 540: Encyclopedia - 540
Events Byzantine general Belisarius conquers Milan and the Ostrogoth capital Ravenna. Ostrogoth king Witiges is succeeded by Ildibad. Po...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 595: Encyclopedia - 595
595 - Events. The first mention of the state of Karantania on monuments. Augustine of Canterbury is sent on a mission to Kent by Pope ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Andechs: Encyclopedia Ii - Andechs - Counts And Dukes Of Andechs
The site of Andechs was originally occupied by a castle belonging to the counts of Dießen on the Ammersee, probably built on a Roman cas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Angles: Encyclopedia Ii - Angles - Early History
Possibly the first instance of the Angles in recorded history is in Tacitus' Germania, chapter 40, in which the Anglii are mentioned in p...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corpus Christi College Cambridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Corpus Christi College Cambridge - History
The licence to build an eighth college in the University of Cambridge was granted by Edward III in 1352 to the newly merged guilds of Cor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Apocrisiarius: Encyclopedia Ii - Apocrisiarius - To Posts In The East
An apocrisiarius was a cleric who served as the representative (also described as legate, a less precise term) of a Patriarch. The most f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bede: Encyclopedia Ii - Bede - Work
His works show that he had at his command all the learning of his time. It was thought that the library at Wearmouth-Jarrow was between 3...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - The Debate About The Church's Existence
It is important to recognise the theological issues raised by the antiquity of the Celtic Church and the influence its existence may have...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demonic Possession: Encyclopedia Ii - Demonic Possession - Demon Possession In Christianity
"Oppression" is a more accurate translation of the term used in Christian sctipture. Possession, like other mistranslations, has gained a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops And Civil Government
The efficient infrastructure of the Roman Empire became the template for the organization of the church in the fourth century, particular...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Standardised Orthography
Old English was at first written in runes (futhorc), but shifted to the Latin alphabet with some additions: the letter yogh, adopted from...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sneeze: Encyclopedia Ii - Sneeze - Beliefs About Sneezing
In 400 BC the Athenian general Xenophon gave a dramatic oration exhorting his fellow soldiers to follow him to liberty or to death agains...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Gregory: Encyclopedia Ii - Gregory - People
Religious leaders Gregory the Illuminator, (Gregory the Wonderworker) Gregory of Nyssa Gregory Nazianzus, Patriarch of Constantinople Gr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Late Medieval Music 1300-1400
Medieval music - France: Ars nova. The beginning of the Ars nova is one of the few clean chronological divisions in medieval music, sin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trajan: Encyclopedia Ii - Trajan - Life Of Trajan
Trajan - Early life and rise to power. Trajan was the son of M. Ulpius Traianus, a prominent senator and general from the famous gens U...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - Ancient Animosity Towards Jews
3rd century BCE: Manetho, a Hellenistic Egyptian chronicler and priest, alleges that Moses was not a Jew, but an Egyptian renegade priest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of Philosophers: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of Philosophers - Notes
Note O: - For more information about this person's contribution to philosophy, see his/her entry in The Oxford Companion to Philosophy....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - The Augustinian Mission
Ethelbert of Kent's wife Bertha, daughter of Charibert, one of the Merovingian kings of the Franks, had brought a chaplain (Liudhard) wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Patriarch John Iv Of Constantinople: Encyclopedia Ii - Patriarch John Iv Of Constantinople - Works
Isidore of Seville (de Script. Eccl. 26) attributes to him only a letter, not now extant, on baptism addressed to St. Leander. John, he s...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Names Of The Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - Names Of The Greeks - Hellenes Έλληνες
During the era of the Trojan War, the Hellenes were a relatively small but vigorous tribe settled in Thessalic Phthia, centralized along ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Death Abdication And Election
Pope - Death. The current regulations regarding a papal interregnum — i.e., a sede vacante ("vacant seat") — were promulgated by Jo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Santa Croce In Gerusalemme: Encyclopedia Ii - Santa Croce In Gerusalemme - History
The church foundation is related to a room pertaining to St. Helena's palace, Palazzo Sessoriano, which she adapted to a chapel around th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jerome: Encyclopedia Ii - Jerome - Writings
Jerome - Translations. Jerome was a noted scholar of Latin at a time when that statement implied a fluency in Greek. He knew some Hebre...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rome: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rome - Ancient Rome
History of Rome - Origins. Further information: Founding of Rome, and [[]], and [[]], and [[]], and    » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Purgatory: Encyclopedia Ii - Purgatory - Catholic Theology
In Roman Catholic theology, Purgatory is a process of purification of the soul after death, following the particular judgment and ordinar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Classical Traditions
Classical music is a broad, somewhat imprecise term, referring to music produced in, or rooted in the traditions of art, ecclesiastical a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pontifex Maximus: Encyclopedia Ii - Pontifex Maximus - Origins Duties And Development Of The Pagan Pontifices
In the Roman Republic, the Pontifex Maximus was the highest office in the polytheistic Roman religion, which was very much a state cult. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Funeral Of Pope John Paul Ii: Encyclopedia Ii - Funeral Of Pope John Paul Ii - Requiem Mass
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI led the Mass of Requiem on April 8 at 10:00am CEST (08:00 UTC), by virtue of his offic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Veneration Of Mary Magdalene
The Eastern Orthodox Church maintains that the saint retired to Ephesus with the Blessed Virgin and there died, that her relics were tran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Death, Abdication, And Election
Pope - Death. The current regulations regarding a papal interregnum — i.e., a sede vacante ("vacant seat") — were promulgated by Jo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pontifex Maximus: Encyclopedia Ii - Pontifex Maximus - Origins, Duties, And Development Of The Pagan Pontifices
In the Roman Republic, the Pontifex Maximus was the highest office in the polytheistic Roman religion, which was very much a state cult. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops In Catholic, Orthodox And Anglican Churches
Although many Protestant churches have rejected the place of bishops in church leadership, churches rooted in tradition continue to ordai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Protestant Influences
Despite separation from Rome, the Church of England under Henry VIII remained essentially Catholic rather than Protestant in nature. Pope...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Separation From Papal Authority
The English Church remained in union with Rome until the reign of Henry VIII. The first break with Rome (subsequently reversed) came when...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Overview
Medieval music - Style and trends. The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Easter Egg Tradition
For centuries, it has been the custom of many Christians to share dyed and painted eggs, particularly on Easter Sunday. The eggs represen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Early Medieval Music -1150
Medieval music - Early chant traditions. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Overview
Medieval music - Style and trends. The general trend in Medieval music is toward complexity in harmony, rhythm, text, and orchestration...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The Church Of England: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The Church Of England - Medieval Consolidation
The Synod of Whitby in 664 forms a significant watershed in that King Oswiu of Northumbria decided to follow Roman rather than Celtic pra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - Early Medieval Music -1150
Medieval music - Early chant traditions. Chant (or plainsong) is a monophonic sacred form which represents the earliest known music of ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Prehistoric Music
The development of music among humans occurred against the backdrop of natural sounds. It was, in all probability, influenced by birdsong...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 21st Century
2003 October 16. The Malaysian Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohammed draws standing ovation at the 57-member Organization of the Islamic C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Music In Cradles Of Civilizations
The prehistoric era is considered to have ended with the development of writing, and with it, by definition, prehistoric music. "Ancient ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Objections To The Papacy
The pope's position as Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church is dogmatic and therefore not open to debate or dispute within the Roman C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Popular Music
Popular music, sometimes abbreviated pop music, is music belonging to any of a number of musical styles that are broadly popular or inten...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Music: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Music - Folk Music
Folk music, in the original sense of the term, is music by and of the people. Folk music arose, and best survives, in societies not yet a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Rome: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Rome - Medieval Rome
History of Rome - Barbarian and Byzantine rule. In 476, the last Western Roman emperor Romulus Augustus, a puppet (like almost all empe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Mary Magdalene In The New Testament
In Luke 8:3 she is mentioned as one of the women who "ministered to him [Christ] of their substance". The book also tells the story of an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Objections To The Papacy
The pope's position as Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church is dogmatic and therefore not open to debate or dispute within the Catholi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sneeze: Encyclopedia Ii - Sneeze - Nursery Rhymes Associated With Sneezing
Sneezing has also inspired superstition-laden nursery rhymes: Sneeze on Monday for health, Sneeze on Tuesday for wealth, Sneeze on Wedne...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 16th Century
1505 Ten České Budějovice Jews are tortured and executed for killing a Christian girl; later, on deathbed, shepherd confesses to fabri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pontifex Maximus: Encyclopedia Ii - Pontifex Maximus - Legacy
Pontifex Maximus - Christian usage. In Christian circles, when Tertullian furiously applied the term to Pope Callixtus I, with whom he ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sneeze: Encyclopedia Ii - Sneeze - Headline Text
An unimpeded sneeze sends two to five thousand bacteria-filled droplets into the air. The medical name for sneezing is sternutation. Snee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Political Role
Though the progressive Christianisation of the Roman Empire in the fourth century did not confer upon bishops civil authority within the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Trajan: Encyclopedia Ii - Trajan - Trajan's Legacy
For the remainder of the history of the Roman Empire and well into the era of the Byzantine Empire, every new emperor after Trajan was ho...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Corpus Christi College Cambridge: Encyclopedia Ii - Corpus Christi College Cambridge - Buildings
Old Court, built in the 1350s, is one of Cambridge's oldest buildings and retains many of its original features, including sills and jamb...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Medieval Music: Encyclopedia Ii - Medieval Music - High Medieval Music 1150-1300
Medieval music - Ars antiqua. The flowering of the Notre Dame school of polyphony from around 1150 to 1250 corresponded to the equally ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Office And Nature
In canon law, the Catholic Pope is referred to as the Roman Pontiff (Pontifex Romanus). He is styled "Your Holiness" (Sanctitas Vestra) a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Regalia And Insignia
Main article: Papal regalia and insignia. The "triregnum" also called the "tiara" or "triple crown"; recent popes have not, however, wor...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Status And Authority
The status and authority of the pope in the Catholic Church was dogmatically defined by the First Vatican Council in its Dogmatic Constit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Anti-semitism: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Anti-semitism - The 20th Century
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Roman Catholic Church adhered to a distinction between "good anti-Semitism" and "bad anti-...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pope: Encyclopedia Ii - Pope - Other Popes
An antipope is a person who claims the Pontificate without being canonically and properly elected to it. The existence of an antipope is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Names Of The Greeks: Encyclopedia Ii - Names Of The Greeks - Hellene Comes To Mean Pagan
The name Hellene came to mean "pagan" in the first Christian centuries and retained that meaning until the end of the millennium, during ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - Ecclesiastical Structure: How Separate Was The Celtic Church?
The Celtic Christians saw themselves as independent of the Roman church as evidenced from the British Bishop Diaothus' reply to St. Augus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - Differences From The Rest Of Catholicism
Due to the difficulties in communications at this time, it was inevitable that variations between the local churches would arise. Althoug...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - What Is Celtic Christianity?
Celtic Christianity, or The Celtic Church, is thought to be a form of Christianity as it was first received and practised by communities ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bede: Encyclopedia Ii - Bede - Life
Almost all that is known of his life is contained in a notice added by himself to his Historia (v.24), which states that he was placed in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Phonology
The inventory of Old English surface phones, as usually reconstructed, is as follows. The sounds marked in parentheses are allophones: [...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Syntax
As a West Germanic language, Old English syntax has a great deal of common ground with Dutch and German. Old English is not dependent upo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - The Easter Problem
The Easter problem — that is, the proper method to be used to calculate the date Easter will fall on in a given year — is a long and ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - Celtic Saints
Some scholars, such as J.N.L. Myres and John Morris, have argued that Pelagius had have a direct effect on the early development of the C...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops In Catholic Orthodox And Anglican Churches
Although many Protestant churches have rejected the place of bishops in church leadership, churches rooted in tradition continue to ordai...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops In Other Churches
Some other churches, such as Lutherans, Methodists and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ("LDS Church"; see also Mormon), a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops In The Apostolic Fathers
At the turn of the first century AD, the church started to acquire a clear organisation. In the works of the Apostolic Fathers, and Ignat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bishop: Encyclopedia Ii - Bishop - Bishops In The New Testament
The New Testament uses the word episkopos five times. Acts of the Apostles 20:28 Epistle to the Philippians 1:1 First Epistle to Timothy...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Celtic Christianity: Encyclopedia Ii - Celtic Christianity - Celtic Christianity Today
The phrase Celtic Christianity has come into current used to describe a modern revival of what is believed to be a more spiritually free ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Dialects
To further complicate matters, Old English was rich in dialect forms. The four main dialect forms of Old English were Mercian, Northumbri...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Old English Language: Encyclopedia Ii - Old English Language - Latin Influence
A large percentage of the educated and literate population (monks, clerics, etc.) were competent in Latin, which was then the prevalent l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Easter Egg Tradition
For centuries, it has been the custom of many Catholic services by sharing dyed and painted eggs and proclaiming to each other, "Christ i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - The Gospel Of Mary
Further attestation of Mary of Magdala and her role among some early Christians is provided by the gnostic, apocryphal Gospel of Mary Mag...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Identification With Other Women Of The New Testament
Tradition as early as the 3rd century [citation needed] identify Mary Magdalene with Mary of Bethany and the woman sinner, who anointed J...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mary Magdalene: Encyclopedia Ii - Mary Magdalene - Mary Magdalene In The New Testament
In Luke 8:3 she is mentioned as one of the women who "ministered to him [Christ] of their substance". The book also tells the story of an...   » Read the article