A STUDY OF THE ROLE OF THE BISHOPS UNDER POPE GREGORY THE GREAT

AD 590-604

POPE GREGORY THE GREAT Born in Rome c. 540 Studied law, and was well versed in Christian

teaching due to ancestral and familial connections

Reigned as Pope between 590-604 Best known for further developing and

solidifying church administration, especially in that if England, where this development would lead to the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons

THE BISHOPS Center position of the Church hierarchy:

Pope, Archbishop, Bishop, Priest, Deacon, Sub-Deacon

Lowest-Tier of Higher Church Administration, highest tier of lower church administration.

Role consisted of dualities of responsibilities and practice: higher church authority and the common parish; royal and papal authority, piety and self-desire

HIGHER CHURCH ADMINISTRATION AND THE COMMON PARISH

ROYAL AND PAPAL AUTHORITY

PIETY AND SELF -INTEREST: SINS OF THE BISHOPS

SIGNIFICANCE Dualities display how the church and

Christian Doctrine and law were still developing.

Opposing sides of Noble and Papal involvement in the church, as well as sins of the bishop, (while not directly correlated with this period) would continue into the Central and High Middle Ages.

CITATIONS O’kay, Thomas. “Gregory the Great” in Great Lives from History: The

Middle Ages, Volume 1. Edited by Shelley Wolbrink, 430-433. Pasadena and Hackensack: Salem Press,

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