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Rh over their pastors; he governed and ordered the temporal affairs of the common church; he appointed and displaced teachers in the south and in the east, and sent to the far northern Britain the Abbot Augustine (in the year 596), with various other pious men, to impart to its people the gracious gifts of the gospel. All the teachers and members of Christianity looked up to him as to the supreme teacher and priest, as to the temporal head of the church. His views however of his dignity and rank, as the Roman bishop and father (Papa) were very unlike those which I heard expressed by his latest successor. But I will let Neander speak on this subject according to the documents which he—but not I—had studied:

“Gregory was animated by the conviction that, as the successor of the Apostle Peter, the care of the whole church, the Greek Church also included,—as well as its highest guidance—had devolved upon him. But, although he permitted to the Roman Church the dignity of supreme judge, over all the other churches, he was nevertheless far from wishing to disallow or infringe the independent dignity of the others. When