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===Feast day===

The current [[General Roman Calendar]], revised in 1969 as instructed by the [[Second Vatican Council]],<ref name=vatican.va /> celebrates Saint Gregory the Great on 3 September. Before that, it assigned his feast day to 12 March, the day of his death in 604. Following the imposition of [[Pope John XXIII]]'s [[Code of Rubrics]] in 1961, celebration of Saint Gregory's feast day was made practically impossible, as John XXIII's reforms forbade the full observance of most feasts during Lent, during which 12 March invariably falls. For this reason, Saint Gregory's feast day was moved to 3 September, the day of his episcopal [[consecration]] in 590,<ref>Calendarium Romanum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1969), pp. 100 and 118</ref> as part of the liturgical reforms of [[Pope Paul VI]].
The [[Eastern Orthodox Church]] and those [[Eastern Catholic Churches]] which follow the [[Byzantine Rite]] continue to commemorate Saint Gregory on 12 March which is during [[Great Lent]], the only time when the [[Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts]], which names Saint Gregory as its author, is used.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}

Other churches also honour Gregory the Great:

* The [[Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod]] [[Calendar of saints (Lutheran)|remember]] him with a [[wikt:commemoration|commemoration]] on 3 September,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Commemorations - Church Year - The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod|url=https://www.lcms.org/worship/church-year/commemorations|access-date=9 April 2021|website=www.lcms.org}}</ref>
* The [[Evangelical Lutheran Church in America]] [[Calendar of saints (Lutheran)|remember]] him with a commemoration on 12 March,<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lutheran - Religious calendar 2021 - Calendar.sk|url=https://calendar.zoznam.sk/church_nameday-enlut.php|access-date=9 April 2021|website=calendar.zoznam.sk}}</ref>
* The [[Calendar of saints (Episcopal Church)|Episcopal Church of the United States]] honors him on 12 March<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W3e7DwAAQBAJ |title=Lesser Feasts and Fasts 2018 |date=1 December 2019 |publisher=Church Publishing, Inc. |isbn=978-1-64065-234-7 |language=en}}</ref> 
* The [[Anglican Church of Canada]] [[Calendar of saints (Anglican Church of Canada)|remember]] him with a [[Memorial (liturgy)|Memorial]] on 3 September.<ref name="prayerbook.ca" /><ref>{{Cite web|title=For All the Saints|url=https://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/ForAlltheSaints.pdf |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221009/https://www.anglican.ca/wp-content/uploads/ForAlltheSaints.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2022 |url-status=live}}</ref>
* Gregory the Great is [[Calendar of saints (Church of England)|remembered]] in the [[Church of England]] with a [[Lesser Festival (Anglicanism)|Lesser Festival]] on 3 September.<ref>{{Cite web|title=The Calendar|url=https://www.churchofengland.org/prayer-and-worship/worship-texts-and-resources/common-worship/churchs-year/calendar|access-date=27 March 2021|website=The Church of England|language=en}}</ref>
* The Parish Church in Ta' [[Kercem]] [[Gozo]] is co-dedicated to Gregory the Great (San Girgor il-Kbir). The feast is celebrated on 12 March or the nearest Sunday.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kercem Parish Church|url=https://www.churchingozo.mt/gozo-ecclesiastical-heritage-trail/kercem-parish-church|access-date=23 February 2025|website=Kercem Parish Church}}</ref>

A traditional [[procession]] is held in [[Żejtun]], [[Malta]], in honour of Saint Gregory (San Girgor) on Easter Wednesday, which most often falls in April, the range of possible dates being 25 March to 28 April.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Date of Easter |url=https://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/easter |access-date=22 June 2024 |website=aa.usno.navy.mil}}</ref>
The feast day of Saint Gregory also serves as a commemorative day for the former pupils of [[Downside School]], called Old Gregorians. Traditionally, OG ties are worn by all of the society's members on this day.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}