A History of The Christian Church. Season 3 Episode 4 (Part 32) Gregory the Great -Shepherd of a Collapsing World.

Send us Fan Mail When Gregory the Great became bishop of Rome at the end of the sixth century, the Western world was pretty much in ruins and standing on the edge of an era that would become known as the Dark Ages. The Roman Empire in the West had collapsed. Cities were crumbling. Plagues swept through the population. Invasions came not in isolation, but in waves. Civil authority was weak, unreliable, and sometimes absent altogether. and into that chaos stepped Gregory. He never sought power....