It seems that Pope Gregory, ignorant of recent developments in the former Roman province, including the spread of the Pelagian heresy, had intended the new archiepiscopal sees for England to be established in London and York.

The first party to successfully cross the Blue Mountains just outside Sydney was led by Gregory Blaxland in 1813, 25 years after the colony was established.

In this sense the word baccalarius or baccalaureus first appears at the University of Paris in the 13th century, in the system of degrees established under the auspices of Pope Gregory IX, as applied to scholars still in statu pupillari.

In 1576, Macau was established as an episcopal see by Pope Gregory XIII with Melchior Carneiro appointed as the first bishop.

From the 6th century the title began to be used particularly of the Bishop of Rome, and in the late 11th century Pope Gregory VII issued a declaration that has been widely interpreted as stating this by then established Western convention.

Gregory the Great ( c 540 – 604 ) who established medieval themes in the Church, in a painting by Carlo Saraceni, c. 1610, Rome.

In 1274 he accompanied Gregory X to the Council of Lyon, where it was established that only four mendicant orders were to be tolerated: Dominicans, Franciscans, Augustinians and Carmelites.

The conclave began on 23 December 1294, ten days after Celestine's resignation, in strict accordance with the rules established by Pope Gregory X at the Second Council of Lyons of 1274.

Gregory was also an enthusiastic supporter of monasticism ; he established the monastery of St. Chrysogonus and rebuilt the hospice of Saints Sergius and Bacchus, near St. Peter's, endowing it for the support of the poor.

The term ' propaganda ' first appeared in 1622 when Pope Gregory XV established the Sacred Congregation for Propagating the Faith.

In 1899, Yeats, Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and George Moore established the Irish Literary Theatre for the purpose of performing Irish and Celtic plays.

Gregory, in fact, established some sort of relations with every country in Christendom ; though these relations did not invariably realize the ecclesiastico-political hopes connected with them.

Until about 1350, Edmund the Martyr, Gregory the Great and Edward the Confessor were regarded as English national saints, but Edward III preferred the more war-like figure of St George, and in 1348 he established the Order of the Garter with St George as its patron.

Edwin of Northumbria had converted to Christianity under the influence of missionaries sent from Rome by Pope Gregory the Great and thus had established Roman practice in his realm.

This changed when Gregory Davis, a Military Intelligence officer, defined and established a clandestine services program under the US Southern Command's " Plan Green ".

The Strasburg City Council established the United States ' first Junior City Council in 2006, sponsored by City Council member Patricia Ford and strongly supported by Mayor Gregory McClure.

In the early centuries of Christianity, this title was applied, especially in the east, to all bishops and other senior clergy ; in the west it began to be used particularly of the Bishop of Rome, rather than for bishops in general, in the 6th century and it was only in 1075 that Pope Gregory VII issued a declaration that has been widely interpreted as stating this by then established convention.

The " Gregorian calendar ", so called since it was established by Gregory XIII, and currently in use the world over, was developed by the Jesuit Christopher Clavius, a professor of the university at the time.

The feast of All Saints became established in the West after 609 or 610 under Pope Boniface IV ; its observance on 1 November dates from the time of Pope Gregory III ( died 741 ).

In a thirty-year reign ( 481 – 511 ) he defeated the Roman general Syagrius and conquered the Roman enclave of Soissons, defeated the Alemanni ( Tolbiac, 504 ) and established Frankish hegemony over them, defeated the Visigoths ( Vouillé, 507 ) and conquered their entire kingdom ( save Septimania ) with its capital at Toulouse, and conquered the Bretons ( according to Gregory of Tours ) and made them vassals of Francia.

The most ancient is the urban monastery originally established by Saint Gregory the Great in the heart of Rome in the sixth century.

It was founded by Pope Gregory XV in 1622 as the Congregation of Propaganda Fide, an organization to arrange missionary work on behalf of the various religious institutions and in 1627, Pope Urban VIII established a training college for missionaries.

Headquarters and shops were established in Brainerd, Minnesota, a town named for the President John Gregory Smith's wife Anna Elizabeth Brainerd.

We find it laid down in the pontificate of Archbishop Ecgbert of York, A. D. 732-766, and referred to as a canonical rule in a capitulary of Charlemagne, and it was finally established as a law of the church in the pontificate of Pope Gregory VII, ca 1085.

Two days after Theodosius arrived in Constantinople, 24 November 380, he expelled the Homoiousian bishop, Demophilus of Constantinople, and surrendered the churches of that city to Gregory Nazianzus, the leader of the rather small Nicene community there, an act which provoked rioting.

Henry IV became so filled with hubris over his position, that he renounced Gregory VII and named the bishop of Ravenna pope.

* 1949 – Gregory Venables, British Anglican bishop

In any event, the plot was set into motion when, on a night when Gregory was confined by illness, the conspirators burst into the cathedral and commenced the consecration of Maximus as bishop of Constantinople.

Following the deaths of his mother and father in 374, Gregory continued to administer the Diocese of Nazianzus but refused to be named bishop.

On the vigil of Easter in 379, an Arian mob burst into his church during worship services, wounding Gregory and killing another bishop.

Gregory was subsequently enthroned as bishop of Constantinople at the Basilica of the Apostles, replacing Demophilus.

After the death of the presiding bishop, Meletius of Antioch, Gregory was selected to lead the Council.

Returning to his homeland of Cappadocia, Gregory once again resumed his position as bishop of Nazianzus.

According to Gregory of Tours it was bishop Monulph who, around 570, built the first stone church on the grave of Servatius, the present-day Basilica of Saint Servatius.

First among chroniclers of the age is the canonised bishop of Tours, Gregory of Tours.

Although Gregory had intended London to be the southern archbishopric for the island, Augustine never moved his episcopal see to London, and instead consecrated Mellitus as a plain bishop there.

Baldouin became the popes's delegate in Courland and bishop of Semigallia ; however, the Germans complained about him to the Roman Curia, and in 1234 Pope Gregory IX removed Baldouin as his delegate.

After examining Boniface ’ s written profession of faith, Gregory was satisfied enough that he made Boniface a bishop in November 722, and returned him to Germany to continue his mission.

In a court run by a bishop and a representative of the emperor, and in the presence of Gregory, Ingoald, the Abbot of Farfa, claimed that the Frankish emperors had granted them the lands, and that Popes Adrian I and Leo III had taken possession of the land illegally.

Gregory VI was succeeded in the papacy by the German bishop of Bamberg, Suidger, who took the name Pope Clement II.

Boniface returned to the continent the next year, and this time went straight to Rome, where Pope Gregory II renamed him " Boniface ", for the ( legendary ) fourth-century martyr Boniface of Tarsus, and appointed him missionary bishop for Germania -- he became a bishop without a diocese for an area that lacked any church organization.

* Gregory of Nazianzus, ( c. 329-c. 390 ), Christian theologian, bishop of Nazianzus in Cappadocia

* Gregory of Tours ( c. 538 – 594 ), Frankish bishop and historian

* Pope Gregory III elected by acclamation as the 90th pope during the funeral procession for Pope Gregory II ; he is consecrated bishop a month later.

* Gregory Nazianzus is ordained bishop of Constantinople.