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The Church of St Gregory the Great is a Roman Catholic parish located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City.The parish is part of the Archdiocese of New York.The church building, designed by architect Elliott Lynch, contains the church and parish offices on the ground floor with St. Gregory the Great Parochial School on the next two floors above, the final fourth floor is occupied ...
The Church of the Holy Name of Jesus was organized in 1868 in the area then known as Bloomingdale. [3] A wood-frame church was erected on the northwest corner of Bloomingdale Road (now called Broadway) and 97th Street. [4] The church was thirty-five by eighty feet, with a capacity of 500; it cost about $3,000 to build.
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]
The Mass of Saint Gregory is a subject in Roman Catholic art which first appears in the late Middle Ages and was still found in the Counter-Reformation. Pope Gregory I ( c. 540 –604) is shown saying Mass just as a vision of Christ as the Man of Sorrows has appeared on the altar in front of him, in response to the Pope's prayers for a sign to ...
The Church Fathers in an 11th-century depiction from Kyiv. The term "Great Church" (Latin: ecclesia magna) is used in the historiography of early Christianity to mean the period of about 180 to 313, between that of primitive Christianity and that of the legalization of the Christian religion in the Roman Empire, corresponding closely to what is called the Ante-Nicene Period.
The apse and three bays of the nave were constructed in 1911 - 1912 and the church was dedicated to St Gregory the Great in 1912, and consecrated on 13 May 1916 by the Bishop of Birmingham. [3] A parish was assigned out of All Saints' Church, Small Heath (I) and St Oswald's Church, Small Heath in 1924.
Since 1987 there has also been a parallel order of sisters, the Sisters of Saint Gregory. As a Christian community of the US Episcopal Church, [3] the community is open to both married and unmarried men in the Episcopal Church, its communion partners, and the wider Anglican Communion. As in other orders and communities, members follow a common ...
Anthony Meredith writes of Gregory's mystical and apophatic writings in his book Gregory of Nyssa (The Early Church Fathers) (1999): Gregory has often been credited with the discovery of mystical theology, or rather with the perception that darkness is an appropriate symbol under which God can be discussed.