St. Pope Gregory II (669-731) | WEST

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This Author Quote Archive collects pertinent quotes from the Church Father, St. Pope Gregory II.

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Letters

St. Pope Gregory II, Letter 18 (in St. Boniface): To St. Boniface (November 22, 726)¹ ***

In this same letter you inserted several paragraphs of inquires as to the faith and teaching of this Holy and Apostolic Roman Church. And this was well done; for the blessed apostle Peter stands as the fountainhead of the apostolate and the episcopate. And to you who consult us about ecclesiastical matters we show what decision you have to take according to the teaching of apostolic tradition, and we do this not as if by our own personal authority, but by the grace of Him who opens the mouth of the dumb and makes eloquent the tongues of infants.

Footnotes

1. St. Boniface, Ephraim Emerton, trans., The Letters of Saint Boniface (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 31. ↩︎