This Pope's writings included the contemporary bestseller Moralia on Job. After the death of the emperor Maurice, he allied w
This Pope's writings included the contemporary bestseller Moralia on Job. After the death of the emperor Maurice, he allied with the usurper Phocas to suppress the schismatics aligned with Severus. This Pope was noted for his correspondence with prominent women, such as the Frankish queen Brunhilde, whom he enlisted in his attempts to abolish simony. His tenure was plagued by a controversy over the Nestorian writings of Theodore of Mopsuestia, Theodoret of Cyrrhus, and Ibas of Edessa, the (*) Three Chapters controversy. This Pope negotiated a truce with the Lombards and dispatched Augustine of Canterbury to Christianize Kent. The successor to Pelagius II, for 10 points, identify this fourth and final of the Latin "Fathers of the Church," pope from 590 to 604 CE.
This Pope's writings included the contemporary bestseller Moralia on Job.
Gregory the Great or Saint Gregory or Gregory I [prompt on Gregory]