Can someone identify this Pope?

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A church I visit has this Pope on a stained glass window with no indication of his name. The church is not named after a Pope. Can somebody identify this Pope? I presume it’s a sainted Pope.

I believe when the church was built it had a Slovak congregation, in case that’s a clue.

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Could be any of 50 different popes.

Probably need to ask the sacristan or priest or an elderly parishioner. Sometimes in the narthex they have a pamphlet describing all the sacred art in the church.

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I’m thinking Pope St. Gregory the Great because of the book, quill, and dove.

This is a stained glass window of him:

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I suspect you’re right, Dolphin.

This particular church is not historic (Built in the 60s) and doesn’t have any info about the windows in the narthex. I suspect the windows may have been taken from some other old church that was demolished, and re-used by installing into this one.
 
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From Symbols of the Saints in Art at Fisheaters.com:
Gregory the Great a man wearing papal tiara and sometimes carrying a crozier. Often shown working on sheet music or writing, accompanied by a dove. (Doctor)
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The book is because he has taught the Church with his writing; sheet music because he has taught the Church to sing (Gregorian chant). Sometimes he is grouped with St Cecilia, King David, or both, as patrons of Church music.
A dove is his special emblem, in allusion to the well-known story recorded by Peter the Deacon (Vita, xxviii), who tells that when the pope was dictating his homilies on Ezechiel a veil was drawn between his secretary and himself. As, however, the pope remained silent for long periods at a time, the servant made a hole in the curtain and, looking through, beheld a dove seated upon Gregory’s head with its beak between his lips. When the dove withdrew its beak the holy pontiff spoke and the secretary took down his words; but when he became silent the servant again applied his eye to the hole and saw the dove had replaced its beak between his lips.
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Fresco of St Gregory the Great at the Collegiata of San Gimignano, Italy. No beard.
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