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Gregory III
Saint
Sanctified Life
700 — 741
"Our tears flow day and night when we see the Church of God everywhere despoiled."
A Syrian-born Pope known for his courage and administrative skill, Gregory III was the last non-European pope for over a millennium. His path was focused on protecting the Church from Lombard incursions and furthering the mission to the Germanic peoples, consistently emphasizing the independence of the spiritual over the secular.
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Pope Gregory III (died 28 November 741) was the Bishop of Rome from 11 February 731 to his death. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the iconoclastic controversy in the Byzantine Empire and the advance of the Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of Charles Martel.
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• Catholic priest• writer