Editing Pope Gregory II (section)

==Early life==
Born into a [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|noble Roman]] family in the year 669,<ref>Levillain, pg. 642</ref> Gregory was the son of Marcellus and wife Honesta.<ref>Mann, pg. 144</ref> Gregory II was an alleged collateral ancestor to the Roman [[Savelli family]],<ref>Williams, George L., ''Papal Genealogy: The Families And Descendants Of The Popes'' (2004), pg. 37</ref> according to a 15th-century chronicler, but this is unattested in contemporary documents and very likely unreliable. The same was said of the seventh-century [[Pope Benedict II]], but nothing certain is known about a kinship between the two of them.

As a young man, he was placed in the [[papal court]], and was made a [[subdeacon]] and [[sacellarius]] of the [[Roman See]] during the pontificate of [[Pope Sergius I|Sergius I]] (687–701). Later he was made a [[deacon]] and placed in charge of the [[Vatican Library]].<ref name="m145">Mann, pg. 145</ref> During [[Pope Constantine|Constantine]]'s pontificate, Gregory was made a papal secretary, and accompanied the pope to [[Constantinople]] in 711 to deal with the issues raised by Rome’s rejection of the [[Canon law|canons]] of the [[Quinisext Council]].<ref>Ekonomou, pg. 272; Mann, pg. 133</ref> The actual negotiations on the contentious articles were handled by Gregory, with the result that Emperor [[Justinian II]] agreed that the papacy could disregard whichever of the council’s decisions it wished to.<ref>Treadgold, pg. 342</ref>

After Constantine’s death on 9 April 715, Gregory was elected [[pope]], and was consecrated as [[bishop of Rome]] on 19 May 715.<ref name="m145"/>