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The title “Great” has been assessed to only two popes, St. Leo and Saint Gregory. Saint Gregory the Great was also known as Gregory I; Father of the Fathers. He was born in 540 AD to a wealthy patrician family in Rome. During this time the city of Rome was still the center of the Roman Empire. His father was Gordianus. His father was a wealthy senator, member of the government, so Gregory was an active church member, and he received a thorough education. When he was 30 years old he was named prefect of Rome. When Gregory was thirty-four years old, Emperor Justin the Younger appointed him as Chief Magistrate of Rome. When Gregory’s father died he used his inheritance to build six monasteries in Sicily. He founded another in his home in Rome. It later became the Benedictine Monastery of Saint Andrew.
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