Pope Gregory the Great on Mission in Western Europe

Pope Gregory the Great was a Catholic Church Pope between 590 and 604. He was also known as Pope Saint Gregory 1. He was one of the two Popes who was referred to as the Great for he served during a challenging era of barbarian assaults in Rome. He was born at around year 540 in Rome from a prosperous family by his parents Gordianus and Silvia. The former Popes Agapitus 1 and Felix III were also related to Pope Gregory. He came from a family with an active Christianity faith background. At the season that Pope Gregory was born, the city of Rome was in extraordinary rot having been more than once possessed and even shook by seismic tremors for as long as two centuries. Nobody had minded reestablishing the harm from any of these sad occasions. Regardless of the greater part of this, Gregory got an ideal edification offered and turned out to be very recognized. Pope Gregory was also acknowledged for his great mission of converting the pagans to Christians in Rome. In 568 he was appointed as the chief regulatory authority of Rome in charge of the police department, financial statements, civil works and provisioning and the people depended on him for safety. This ordeal helped him sharpen his managerial aptitudes and together with his riches gave him the chance to create six cloisters. In this research, I will shed light on Pope Gregory life and influence on a mission in Western Europe.

Pope Gregory's Life on Mission in Western Europe

Pope Gregory was a visionary who predicted a worldwide church that would convey Latin Christianity to the new Germanic kingdoms of Western Europe. In 574, he pensioned off into a prayer and scrutiny life. He also converted his house which was based at Caelian Hill in Rome into a monastery. He named it St. Andrew's Monastery and later he started the study of scriptures. In 577 Pope Benedict 1 selected Gregory as a vicar in Rome where he was sent by Pope Pelagius II in 579 to Constantinople as an ecclesiastical delegate. There, under heads Tiberius II and Maurice, Gregory endeavored to obtain help for Rome against the Lombard intruders who was unsuccessful. Pope Gregory later returned to Rome and served as an Abbot at St. Andrews. He spent most of the time fasting with sleepless nights which caused his significant ailments in his entire life. All he wanted was to live in a monastery in thoughts most importantly of considering about a holy thing only. (Santha, pg145).

In 589, Gregory was unanimously appointed as a Pope after a surge decimated the grain stores of Rome, actuating a starvation and a torment that flounced through Rome and killed Pope Pelagius. Though it was against his will about the elections, Gregory worked effectively once he took office. Pope Gregory sent a mission to convert the Britain's in Anglo-Saxons in 595. The Kent kingdom was ruled by Ethelbert who was a pagan. He was married to a Christian wife, Bertha. According to her culture, she had got a Bishop Liudhard in Kent who was her priest. Pope Gregory saw favorable Anglo-Saxon slaves from the Roman slave advertise in Britain and was stimulated to attempt to change over their kin. However, he enquired from the papal domain administrators from Southern Gaul about buying the English slaves and so that they can be trained in the missionaries. This showed that Gregory had already planned mission in Britain. In 596, Bishop Liudhard died, and the missionary activities started immediately. Gregory believed that he was ordained to play a significant role in God's plan for the apocalypse. He urged leaders and diocesans to cooperate for the change of non-Christians and increase the number of Christians their regions. On March 12 604, Pope Gregory died after suffering from arthritis, and he was instantly proclaimed a saint (Kuiper, pg123).

Influences of Pope Gregory's Mission in Western Europe

Pope Gregory's mission in Kent denotes an important defining theme in the historical backdrop of Christianity in Europe since it was the main extensive scale documented mission pointed to non-Christians being remitted from Rome. His influence on the types of open worship all through Western Europe was huge. He established a school for the preparation of Chapel performers. Due to his enthusiasm for the association, there is the calendar of Scripture readings for different Sundays as well as the supplications which he composed most of them to be used all through by a majority of Western Christendom for thirteen centuries. He also endeavored to mitigate the torment of the general population, providing haven and sustenance for displaced, surge and suffering victims from the Lombard intruder. He utilized the church incomes to help poor people and the famished. He likewise incorporated the papacy's regulatory apparatus and battled defilement and carelessness Influence. At the beginning of every month, the Pope would help and regulate the dispersion of food and garment he had reserved from the vast ecclesiastical terrains procured over hundreds of years through donations by the loyal (Hillgarth, pg400).

Impacts of Pope Gregory's Mission in Western Europe

Pope Gregory's mission in Western Europe was successful, and Christianity was victoriously everywhere in Kent kingdom. Under the guarding and overseeing hand of Gregory, the Rome of the Popes ascended from the remnants of the Rome Emperors. As a result of the sheer powerlessness of the leaders of the Western Empire to declare any polite expert over Italy. Also, they because there was no longer any military specialist left in Rome, Pope Gregory was constrained to accept both workplaces, alongside his particular widespread spiritual duties that he gave the best acknowledgment of the practically overpowering circumstance (Karen, pg375).

Conclusion

Pope Gregory set a high profile for the barbaric papacy. He reunited many autonomous religious administrators to Rome by humble interests, not protecting his rights but rather those of the poor. People celebrate his feasting day worldwide on September 3rd.

Work Cited

Hillgarth, J. (1986). Christianity and Paganism, 350-750: The Conversion of Western Europe.

Karen L., et al. (2015). Tradition and Diversity: Christianity in a World Context to 1500.

Kuiper, B. (1951). The Church in History. Grand Rapids, Mich: Eerdmans.

Santha B. (2001). Reading the Gospels with Gregory the Great: Homilies on the Gospels, 21-26. St. Bede's Publications.