Pope Gregory has been the name of sixteen Roman Catholic Popes and two Antipopes:
- Pope Gregory I, also called Gregory the Great
- Pope Gregory II
- Pope Gregory III
- Pope Gregory IV
- Pope Gregory V
- Pope Gregory VI
- Antipope Gregory VI
- Pope Gregory VII, Hildebrand
- Pope Gregory VIII
- Antipope Gregory VIII
- Pope Gregory IX
- Pope Gregory X
- Pope Gregory XI
- Pope Gregory XII
- Pope Gregory XIII, responsible for the Gregorian calendar
- Pope Gregory XIV
- Pope Gregory XV
- Pope Gregory XVI
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“Words are like leaves; and where they most abound,
Much fruit of sense beneath is rarely found.”
—Alexander Pope (16881744)
“Who does not know that kings and rulers sprang from men who were ignorant of God, who assumed because of blind greed and intolerable presumption to make themselves masters of other men, their equals, by means of pride, violence, bad faith, murder, and almost every other kind of crime? Surely the devil drove them on.”
—Pope Gregory VII (c. 10201085)
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