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The Gregorian mission [1] or Augustinian mission [2] was a Christian mission sent by Pope Gregory the Great in 596 to convert Britain's Anglo-Saxons. [3] The mission was headed by Augustine of Canterbury. By the time of the death of the last missionary in 653, the mission had established Christianity among the southern Anglo-Saxons.
The Gregorian mission was a group of Italian monks and priests sent by Pope Gregory the Great to Britain in the late 6th and early 7th centuries to convert and Christianize the Anglo-Saxons from their native Anglo-Saxon paganism. [1] The first group consisted of about 40 monks and priests, some of whom had been monks in Gregory's own monastery ...
Pope Gregory I (Latin: Gregorius I; c. 540 – 12 March 604), commonly known as Saint Gregory the Great, was the 64th Bishop of Rome from 3 September 590 to his death. [1] [a] He is known for instituting the first recorded large-scale mission from Rome, the Gregorian mission, to convert the then largely pagan Anglo-Saxons to Christianity. [2]
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Gregory also wrote to the Frankish kings Chlothar II, Theuderic II, Theudebert II, along with Brunhilda of Austrasia, who was Theudebert and Theuderic's grandmother and regent. Wood feels that this wide appeal to the Frankish episcopate and royalty was an effort to secure more support for the Gregorian mission. [ 14 ]
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The first part of the text (chapters 1-11) describe Gregory's birth, early career, and his teaching. It proceeds to the earliest account of a story in which Gregory meets some English boys on sale as slaves and decides, on the basis of their beauty, to convert the English to Christianity, and thus to tell of the Gregorian mission to England.
The Holy See removed the United States from the jurisdiction of Propaganda Fide as mission territory in 1908, along with England, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Canada. With the publication of Pope Paul VI's Regimini Ecclesiae Universae on 15 August 1967, the Roman Curia was reorganized and the name of the congregation was changed to the ...