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from Part II - Christological Perspectives after Constantinople II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2022
Gregory the Great was the Roman pontiff from 590 until his death in 604. In the mid-570s he abandoned a successful career in government in order to become a monk. In 579 or 580 Pope Pelagius II ordained him a deacon and sent him to Constantinople as the papal ambassador. He spent about six years in the imperial capital, where he became the center of a circle of monks and clerics who read the scriptures together. The lectures on the biblical book of Job that he delivered in this setting he later revised for publication as the Moralia in Job, his most famous work and a treasure-house of moral, spiritual, and theological insight. Upon his return to Rome he resumed his monastic life, but was elected pope after the death of Pelagius II in 590.
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