Pope Gregory II
Religious Leader
– 0731
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Who was Pope Gregory II?
Pope Gregory II was the head of the Catholic Church from 19 May 715 to his death in 731. His defiance of the Byzantine emperor Leo III the Isaurian as a result of the iconoclastic controversy in the Eastern Empire prepared the way for a long series of revolts, schisms and civil wars that eventually led to the establishment of the temporal power of the popes.
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