Pope Gregory II

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Gregory II
Birth name  ???
Papacy began May 19, 715
Papacy ended February 11, 731
Predecessor Constantine
Successor Gregory III
Born  ???
Rome, Italy
Died February 11, 731
Rome, Italy. Location of tomb has since been lost.
Other popes named Gregory
Styles of
Pope Gregory II
Reference style His Holiness
Spoken style Your Holiness
Religious style Holy Father
Posthumous style Saint

Pope Gregory II was from the Roman family of Savelli, and served as pope from May 19, 715 to his death on February 11, 731, succeeding Pope Constantine. Having, it is said, bought off the Lombards for thirty pounds of gold, he used the tranquillity thus obtained for vigorous missionary efforts among the Germanic tribes, and for strengthening the papal authority in the churches of Briton and Ireland aka Hibernia. By excommunicating the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian, he prepared the way for a long series of revolts and civil wars, which tended greatly to the establishment of the temporal power of the popes. He died in 731, and subsequently attained the honour of canonization. The day that Gregory is remembered in the "Martyrology" seems to be any one of February 11th, February 13th, and February 28th.


Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Constantine		 Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Peter (deprecated A.D. 495), Vicar of Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles
Supreme Pontiff (Pontifex Maximus)
Patriarch of the West (deprecated 2006), Primate of Italy,
Archbishop and Metropolitan of the Roman Province
Servant of the Servants of God
Pope
715–731		 Succeeded by
Gregory III


from the 9th edition (1880) of an unnamed encyclopedia

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