of the “Eternal City,” Rome, should enhance the Rome, the position of the Bishop of Rome. It was Leo, called the Great, bishop of Rome, 440–461, who envisaging an ecclesiastical monarchy, made the first claims for the supremacy of the Roman see and became the first real Pope… [p. 5] In the year 590 Gregory the Great came to the papal chair. His vigorous reforms and energetic politics put the church into first place in Italy and the West. His credulity in respect of miracles and his veneration of
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