Byzantine Emperor Phoca

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He strongly supported the new Byzantine Emperor Phocas, so Phocas absolute right within the church and granted him the title of Ecumenical Patriarch; while the Pope also attaches great importance to the Western barbarians, always attached importance to the establishment and Lombardy relations queen and Merovingian queen; and then send missionaries to preach Britain. He had to carry forward the liturgical life, organize Latin sacred music, is one of the four "taught by Dr." the closure of the Roman Catholic Church, created a public liturgy; Gregorian chant to praise the Catholic Church a single part or unison liturgy music. For Mass or prayer service in the singing, this is the reign of Pope Gregory I, when the collection and collation thus

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