_Gelasius_, Pope, 492, 98; condition of the Empire and Church at his accession, 98-9; writes to Euphemius, who will cede everything except the person of Acacius, 103-5; the bishops of Eastern Illyricum profess their obedience to the Apostolic See, 105-6; to whom the Pope declares that the see of Constantinople has no precedence over other bishops, 107; that the Holy See, in virtue of its Principate, confirms every council, 109; his great letter to the emperor Anastasius defines the domain of the Two Powers, 110; the Primacy instituted by Christ, acknowledged by the Church, 111; in the Roman synod of 496, declares the divine Primacy of the Roman See, the second rank of Alexandria, and the third of Antioch, as sees of Peter, 113; the three Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus in 431, and Chalcedon, to be general, 116; omits the Council of Constantinople in 381, 116; death of Gelasius, and character of the time of his sitting, 118; calls Odoacer "barbarian and heretic," 68 _Gennadius_ bishop of Constantinople, 458-71, 64 _Gibbon_, acknowledges the two great victories of the Church, 325; and the work of the Church in the Spanish monarchy, 322; and the influence of bishops in establishing the French monarchy, 329 _Glycerius_, Roman emperor, 21 _Gregorovius_, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, 9, 11, 13, 14, 23, 42, 208, 222, 245, 247, 272-3, 275 _Gregory, St., the Great_, his ancestry, 276; state of Rome described by his predecessor Pope Pelagius, 277; elected Pope, 590--tries for six months to escape, 278; describes the work he was undertaking, 279; and the misery of Rome in the words of Ezechiel, 281; the Rome of St. Leo and the Rome of St. Gregory, 284; his works done out of this Rome, 285-7; the Lombard descent on Italy, 288; alludes to a strange occurrence in St. Agatha dei Goti, 21; refers to his great-grandfather, Pope Felix III., 81; describes St. Benedict rebuking Totila, 215; his right of reporting injustice to the emperor, 260; his Primacy untouched by Rome's calamities, 292; describes his Primacy to the empress Constantina, 295; identifies to her his authority with that of St. Peter, 296; also to the emperor Mauritius, 299; and to the Lombard queen Theodelinda, 312; and to the king of the Franks, 312; and to Rechared, Gothic king of Spain, 319; and in the appointment of the English hierarchy, 315; his inference from the original patriarchal sees being all sees of Peter, 301; exposes the contrast between the assumed title of the patriarch of Constantinople and his own Principate, 302-7; his title, "Servant of the servants of God," expresses his administration, 308; as fourth Doctor of the western Church, 334; as chief artificer in the Church's second victory, 335;