These preaching friars, with the authorization of Gregory IX, adopted ( with some modifications, e. g. the substitution of the " Gallican " for the " Roman " version of the Psalter ) the Breviary hitherto used exclusively by the Roman court, and with it gradually swept out of Europe all the earlier partial books ( Legendaries, Responsories ), & c., and to some extent the local Breviaries, like that of Sarum.

Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.

Mellitus was the recipient of a famous letter from Pope Gregory I known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, preserved in a later work by the medieval chronicler Bede, which suggested the conversion of the Anglo-Saxons be undertaken gradually, integrating pagan rituals and customs.

In the middle of the 4th century, King Urnayr of Albania arrived in Armenia and was baptized by Gregory the Illuminator, but Christianity spread in Albania only gradually, and the Albanian king remained loyal to the Sassanids.

Enforcing these declarations was a different matter, but the advantage gradually came to be on the side of Gregory VII.

NBC reporter David Gregory has cited the Vietnam War as an important example of mission creep, defining it as " the idea of, you know, gradually surging up forces, having nation-building goals, and running into challenges all along the way.

") In 726 the soldiers and citizens of the Exarchate rose in a rebellion over the iconoclastic controversy at the urging of Pope Gregory II.

The Liber Pontificalis praises him for " filling the church with clergy ," in contrast to Gregory, who rose rapidly from simple monk to bishop of Rome.

The Normans sacked Rome in the process, and when the citizens of Rome rose up against Gregory he was forced to flee south with the Normans.

Gregory " Greg " Kinnear ( born June 17, 1963 ) is an American actor and television personality who first rose to stardom in 1991.

The custom of giving the rose supplanted the ancient practice of sending Catholic rulers the Golden Keys from St. Peter's Confessional, a custom introduced either by Pope Gregory II ( 716 ) or Pope Gregory III ( 740 ).

Gregory had high hopes of reconciling Europe, unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and launching a new crusade: to that end, he announced the Council of Lyon, to be held in 1274, and worked to arrange the election of an Emperor.

Whereas Gregory distributed grain to the Roman populace as invasion loomed, Sabinian sold it for high prices ( though this may be a later interpolation by Gregory's biographers ).

It includes one elementary schools ( Valley of Enchantment Elementary ), and one alternative high school ( Lake Gregory Education Center, formerly Lake Gregory Elementary.

Maximus was also held in very high esteem by the exarchs Gregory, the eparch George and the population as a holy man, ostensibly becoming an influential unofficial political advisor and spiritual head in North Africa.

Knights Collar and Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Carlos III of Spain, Knights Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Gregory the Great and Order of St. Sylvester of the Holy See, Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, and Knights Grand Cross of several other orders of high prestige, are also addressed as such.

The first major company to experiment with the idea of a solidbody seven-string guitar was Fender, who in 1987 signed an agreement with Alex Gregory to produce a Stratocaster-style guitar that also featured a high A string.

Among those who built up the Christian Church, extended its influence, and strengthened its institutions, the bishops of Asia Minor occupy a high position ; among them Gregory of Neocaesarea holds a very prominent place.

The chapel of S. Gregory the Illuminator ( formerly the Chapel of the Mother of God-St Astvatzatzin ), built before 1177, stands high above the road, a hundred meters away from the entrance to the monastery.

In one episode, she complains to Will about the way he approached her, saying: " You came in here all high-and-mighty ... acting all mighty, while I was high ," and on another episode saying, " Oh, honey, you say potato, I say vodka ," and to Ben Doucette ( played by the late Gregory Hines ), Karen declares, " Honey, I'd suck the alcohol out of a deodorant stick.

Driving a Ferrari 375 Indy for Luigi Chinetti's North American Racing Team at the 1958 Race of Two Worlds, Schell joined Phil Hill ( Scuderia Ferrari 296 Dino ) and Masten Gregory ( Ecurie Ecosse Jaguar D-Type ) on the Monza high banking as the only American drivers not entered in an American Championship Car.

Gregory was one of the World War I veterans converted to high speed transports for the Battle of Guadalcanal.

* The Altar of St. Patrick and Altar of St. Brigid, located in the west and east ambulatorys, respectively, are constructed from the same Egyptian travertine that was used by Pope Gregory XVI, to decorate the high altar of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls in Rome.

Then, Michael VIII's hopes of stopping the advance of Charles were laid on the influence of Pope Gregory X. Gregory had high hopes of reconciling Europe, unifying the Greek and Latin churches, and launching a new crusade: to that end, he announced the Council of Lyon, to be held in 1274, and worked to arrange the election of an Emperor, so he ordered Charles to stop his operations.

A coming-of-age independent feature film set in late 1970s, Nearing Grace follows high school senior Henry Nearing ( Gregory Smith ).

Guiry was born in Trenton, New Jersey and attended St. Gregory the Great school in Hamilton Township, Mercer County, New Jersey from kindergarten through eighth grade, and then high school at Notre Dame High School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Rather than press his case and risk further division, Gregory decided to resign his office: " Let me be as the Prophet Jonah!

Shocked, Gregory decided to resign his office, but the faction faithful to him induced him to stay and ejected Maximus.

Soon Lothair, with the support of Pope Gregory IV, whom he had confirmed in office without his father's support, joined the revolt in 833.

In May 1045, Benedict IX resigned his office to pursue marriage, selling his office to his godfather, the pious priest John Gratian, who named himself Gregory VI.

Gregory VI, seeing that little choice was left to him, complied of his own accord and laid down his office.

He had been sent by Pope Gregory I as Apostolic nuncio, to Constantinople, but he apparently was not entirely satisfactory in that office.

In the end, Hitchcock pushed for Gregory Peck, then at the peak of his box office appeal, Ann Todd was loaned from the Rank Organisation to play his wife, and Selznick settled on Alida Valli, considered one of the most promising actresses in the Italian cinema for " Mrs. Paradine ".

In his elision of Jesus and Pope Gregory VII he ignores the otherwise vast dissimilarities between their reported lives and focuses on the similarity of their appointment to religious office by baptism.

In the 2007 municipal elections, the Republican party, led by Gregory A. Ballard, recaptured the Mayor's office and also won back a majority of the City-County Council.

* Pope Gregory III, in office 731-741

* Patriarch Gregory III of Alexandria, Greek Orthodox patriarch, in office 1354-1366

* Patriarch Gregory III of Constantinople, in office 1443-1450

Yorke then approached Gregory to state that he wanted to leave the club, to which Gregory was famously attributed to saying that he would shoot Yorke if he had had a gun in his office.

** Sir Edward Gregory, who was the last civilian to hold the office, and retired in 1703.

Two months later he sent emissaries including Peter de Colmieu, Archbishop of Rouen, William of Modena, who had resigned his episcopal office, and Abbot William of St. Facundus as legates to the emperor at Melfi with instructions to ask him to release the prelates whom he had captured while on their way to a council that Gregory IX had intended to hold at Rome and challenge the emperor to make satisfaction for the injuries which he had inflicted upon the Church, which had caused Gregory IX to put him under the ban of excommunication.

Recalled to Rome in 1841 by the conservative Pope Gregory XVI, he entered the office of the Secretariat of State, but four years later was appointed pontifical treasurer-general.

A vacancy in the papal office may also result from a papal resignation, though no pope has abdicated since Gregory XII in 1415.

These contracts came under scrutiny from the State Ethics Commission and the office of state Inspector General Gregory Sullivan when several conflicts of interest surrounding Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Salvatore DiMasi and his accountant Richard Vitale came to light.

Bishops have, in virtue of their God-given powers, full authority within their dioceses in all matters of dispensation, patronage and the like ; papal bulls, briefs, etc., and the decrees of the Roman Congregations are only of binding force in each diocese when sanctioned by the bishop ; nunciatures, as hitherto conceived, are to cease ; the oath of allegiance to the pope demanded of bishops since Gregory VII's time is to be altered so as to bring it into conformity with episcopal rights ; annates and the fees payable for the pallium and confirmation are to be lowered and, in the event of the palhum or confirmation being refused, German archbishops and bishops are to be free to exercise their office under the protection of the emperor ; with the Church tribunals of first and second instance ( episcopal and metropolitan ) the nuncios at Cologne are not to interfere, and, though appeal to Rome is allowed under certain national safe-guards, the opinion is expressed that it would be better to set up in each archdiocese a final court of appeal representing the provincial synod ; finally the emperor is prayed to use his influence with the pope to secure the assembly of a national council in order to remove the grievances left unredressed by the council of Trent.

However, the inflexibility of an executive suite lease doesn ’ t work for many business models and helped spur the virtual office concept. The first commercial application of a virtual office occurred in 1994, when Ralph Gregory founded “ The Virtual Office, Inc ”, in Boulder, Colorado.