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Gregorianism
The Chamber of Beneficience, East Ruthen
Type	Universalizing religion
Classification	Imirianic
Scripture	Gregorian Canon
Theology	Monotheism, Trinitarianism, Gnosticism
Region	Worldwide
Founder	Gregory, Princeps Mundi, Agnes Salvator

Gregorianism is an Imirianic trinitarian religion focused on the teachings of Gregory, the proclaimed Divine Manifestation who preached in Calesia and Northern Hylasia in the 1st century CE. It is the largest religion on Teleon, with approximately 2.8 billion followers, more than X% of the global population, and has shaped the cultural institutions, belief systems, and ideologies of most of the Old World.

Gregorian beliefs and practice are diverse amongst its many sects, but a unifying thread is the concept of a God whose triune nature manifests in creation and in the human experience. Gregorians hold that God's manifestation in the person of Gregory bridged the mundane and divine worlds and made possible human gnosis. This "divine realization" is believed to have been first facilitated by the reflection of God's three aspects in the persons of the earthly trinity, and is is currently perpetuated by the Gregorian religious body and/or the promised resurrection of the persons of the trinity, especially the Princeps Mundi and Agnes Salvator.

Gregorianism originated the first century CE in Hernician !Greece from the teachings of Gregory, who is believed to have fled from Azeth following its sacking. The followers of Gregory, under an alliance with the Princeps Mundi, briefly took control of the Hernician Empire, but were soon overthrown and persecuted. Early Gregorians originated as a sect who idealized the earlier political revolution, and whose ideas quickly spread throughout the Empire (and across the sea to Abaria) in the third century CE. Disputes over the nature of the trinity and eschatology culminated in the division of the faith between Apostolic and Principal sects in the 4th century, while the Cathedralist organ that had become established in Calesia split into north and south in the 11th century and later split with the Presterists during the Reformation. The discovery of the New World and the increasing dominance of Calesian powers further spread the faith and practice of Gregorianism worldwide.

History

Origin

Main article: Palmerism

Theology

Main article: God in Gregorianism

Waldish depiction of the earthly trinity, 15th century

Religious texts

Main article: Gregorian Canon