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Saint Gregory II d. 731, pope (715-31), a Roman; successor of Constantine. When Byzantine Emperor Leo III tried to impose iconoclasm in Italy by an imperial edict, Gregory answered that the emperor could not decide tenets of faith. He was supported by a popular uprising directed at the exarch of Ravenna, the emperor's viceroy in Italy. The Lombards, long the enemies of Rome, took up the Roman cause, with the result that its Byzantine suzerainty over Rome was virtually ended. It was Gregory who sent St. Boniface to evangelize Germany. He was succeeded by Gregory III. Feast: Feb. 11.

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Gregory II, St (669–731), Pope from 715. He was confronted with danger from the Saracens, against whom he had the walls of Rome repaired, and the paganism of the German tribes. To them in 719 he sent St Boniface, aided by British monks and nuns. In the Iconoclastic controversy he rebuked the Emp. Leo III in 727, without, however, countenancing the planned revolt of Italy. Feast day, 13 Feb.

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