Chronology of Pope Gregory the Great

• 540       Gregory born.
• 573       Gregory was appointed Praefectus Urbi (Prefect of the city of Rome).
• 575       Gregory founded the Monastery of St. Andrew.
• 578       Pope Benedict I appointed Gregory one of the seven Regionarii (deacons) of Rome.
• 579        Gregory was sent by Pope Pelagius II as apocrisiarus (residential ambassador)to the Imperial court in Constantinople.
• 586       Gregory returned to Rome and become abbot to the Monastery of St. Andrew.
• 590       Gregory became Pope (consecrated on the 3th of September)
• 593       Gregory wrote the four books of Dialogues.
• 596        Gregory sent Augustine and other monks to evangelize the English.
• 604        Gregory died (12th of March).

Relevant web sites
The Life of Saint Gregory the Great
St. Gregory the Great
The Holiness of Gregory

Selected Writings of Gregory the Great (on the web)

• The Dialogues (Book II)
• Moralia in Iob (first five books)
• Letters showing Papal Activity
• Letter to Abbot Mellitus [r.590-604]
• The Book of the Pastoral Rule and selected early Epistles.(from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II)
• Selected later  Epistles of Gregory the Great  (from Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Series II)