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Gregory II

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Gregory II (669-731)

Italian pope. He sent Boniface as a missionary to Germany and did all in his power to promote Christianity among the heathen. By his conflict with the Emperor Leo the Isaurian concerning sacred images, as well as on the question of heavy taxation, he greatly increased the political power of the Holy See. He was born in Rome.



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At the conclusion of Vatican I (1869-70), when the Greek Catholic patriarch of Antioch, Gregory II Youssef, advanced to kiss the feet of Pius IX, the pope pushed his foot on the patriarch's neck and called him, in substance, a "stubborn mule.
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