What is the Catholic view of Mammas?

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The Wikipedia article on Gregory III, Patriarch of Constantinople states the following:
Gregory died in 1459 in Rome. He was honoured as saint and wonder-worker by the Roman Catholic Church.
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It is not directly cited, and it seemed questionable to me, so I did a quick Google search on the status of Gregory III within Catholicism. I found nothing about whether he is a saint or not, which leads me to strengthen my suspicion, but I wanted to see if anyone here has any pertinent information.

Tell me: What is the status of Gregory III, Patriarch of Constantinople, within the Catholic churches?
 
I was also quite fond of the " Mammas and the Papas" - and still mourn for Cass Elliot.
 
Tarpeian_Rock said:
I was also quite fond of the " Mammas and the Papas" - and still mourn for Cass Elliot.
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Code: 
              California Dreaming
Stopped in to a church I passed along the way.
Well I got down on my knees and I pretend to pray.
You know the preacher liked the cold;
He knows I’m gonna stay.
California dreamin’ on such a winter’s day.

It’s a little sacrilegious, but a nice melody
 
Zabdi_Premjit said:
in Catholicism. I found nothing about whether he is a saint or not, which leads me to strengthen my suspicion, but I wanted to see if anyone here has any pertinent information.

Tell me: What is the status of Gregory III, Patriarch of Constantinople, within the Catholic churches?
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Well, looks like there isn’t one…
 
I have never heard of him, but I didn’t grow up in the church. Having been (mis)educated in the US government school system, any historical figure dealing with religion is off limits. I spent time studying with an Eastern Orthodox monk, and Patriarch Gregory was also never mentioned. Thank you for bringing him up, I am sorry for all the ridicule here. Surely he deserves our respect for trying to mend the schism.
 
Casilda, I don’t think anyone here is really ridiculing. I think everyone was just having a bit of fun off of the first thing that came to mind when they saw the title if this thread. Seeing that other people had the same thought just made everyone join in. I am sure no one meant any disrespect.
 
Irishmom2 said:
Casilda, I don’t think anyone here is really ridiculing. I think everyone was just having a bit of fun off of the first thing that came to mind when they saw the title if this thread. Seeing that other people had the same thought just made everyone join in. I am sure no one meant any disrespect.
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I must admit that I initially rolled my eyes at the comments, but eventually I developed the strong urge to make a joke about Mammas wanting to re-unite with Pappas. I restrained myself though. 😛
 
As a daughter of foreign immigrants with a foreign-sounding name, I take offense when someone’s name is mocked. It shows a lack of education and its disrespectful. It’s even more disrespectful mocking a man of God, who obviously dedicated his life as a monk, a confessor, a Patriarch.
 
Casilda said:
As a daughter of foreign immigrants with a foreign-sounding name, I take offense when someone’s name is mocked. It shows a lack of education and its disrespectful. It’s even more disrespectful mocking a man of God.
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No one was mocking anyone’s name, nor were they mocking a man of God. They were reacting to a word that happened to be a name. A name that most people that responded had no knowledge of until now. I think you are trying too hard to be offended.
 
Casilda said:
As a daughter of foreign immigrants with a foreign-sounding name, I take offense when someone’s name is mocked. It shows a lack of education and its disrespectful. It’s even more disrespectful mocking a man of God.
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In the interest of full disclosure, historians aren’t even sure if “Mammas” was his surname or a (potentially mocking) appellation. Nonetheless, it is a name that has come down to us and he is known by it.
 
When I saw the title of the thread, I didn’t know it was someone’s name. I went to 12 years of catholic school but don’t remember hearing about Gregory III.

I didn’t mean any disrespect to him…I just got caught up in the good-natured fun with the thread title. 😊
 
Zabdi_Premjit said:
The Wikipedia article on Gregory III, Patriarch of Constantinople states the following:

It is not directly cited, and it seemed questionable to me, so I did a quick Google search on the status of Gregory III within Catholicism. I found nothing about whether he is a saint or not, which leads me to strengthen my suspicion, but I wanted to see if anyone here has any pertinent information.

Tell me: What is the status of Gregory III, Patriarch of Constantinople, within the Catholic churches?
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Pope Pius XII, Orientales Omnes Ecclesias, 1945
7. However, although it might well have been totally blotted out on account of the sorry conditions of the period, the memory of this happy union of the Ruthenians with the Apostolic See was not wholly lost with the passage of time. For example in 1458 Gregory Mammas, patriarch of Constantinople, in this holy city, consecrated a certain Gregory as metropolitan of the Ruthenians, who were then subject to the grand duke of Lithuania; and again, more than one of the successors of this metropolitan strove to restore the bond of unity with the Roman Church, although adverse circumstances did not permit the solemn public promulgation of union.
 
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