tinople has no
precedence over other bishops, 107;
that the Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every
council, 109;
his great letter to the emperor Anastasius defines the domain of
the Two Powers, 110;
the Primacy instituted by Christ, acknowledged by the Church, 111;
in the Roman synod of 496, declares the divine Primacy of the Roman
See, the second rank of Alexandria, and the third of Antioch, as
sees of Peter, 113;
the three Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus in 431, and Chalcedon, to be
general, 116;
omits the Council of Constantinople in 381, 116;
death of Gelasius, and character of the time of his sitting, 118;
calls Odoacer "barbarian and heretic," 68

_Gennadius_ bishop of Constantinople, 458-71, 64

_Gibbon_, acknowledges the two great victories of the Church, 325;
and the work of the Church in the Spanish monarchy, 322;
and the influence of bishops in establishing the French
monarchy, 329

_Glycerius_, Roman emperor, 21

_Gregorovius_, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, 9, 11, 13, 14,
23, 42, 208, 222, 245, 247, 272-3, 275

_Gregory, St., the Great_, his ancestry, 276;
state of Rome described by his predecessor Pope Pelagius, 277;
elected Pope, 590--tries for six months to escape, 278;
describes the work he was undertaking, 279;
and the misery of Rome in the words of Ezechiel, 281;
the Rome of St. Leo and the Rome of St. Gregory, 284;
his works done out of this Rome, 285-7;
the Lombard descent on Italy, 288;
alludes to a strange occurrence in St. Agatha dei Goti, 21;
refers to his great-grandfather, Pope Felix III., 81;
describes St. Benedict rebuking Totila, 215;
his right of reporting injustice to the emperor, 260;
his Primacy untouched by Rome's calamities, 292;
describes his Primacy to the empress Constantina, 295;
identifies to her his authority with that of St. Peter, 296;
also to the emperor Mauritius, 299;
and to the Lombard queen Theodelinda, 312;
and to the king of the Franks, 312;
and to Rechared, Gothic king of Spain, 319;
and in the appointment of the English hierarchy, 315;
his inference from the original patriarchal sees being all sees
of Peter, 301;
exposes the contrast between the assumed title of the patriarch
of Constantinople and his own Principate, 302-7;
his title, "Servan