Our Mission
To equip Christians to renew culture in the light of faith and reason.
Our Mission
To equip Christians to renew culture.
Through courses, formation programs, and publications, the Gregory the Great Institute helps believers transform contemporary culture in the light of faith and reason.
Our Vision
A Catholic intellectual renaissance in Canada.
A lay-led movement of formation, scholarship, and beauty — building institutions that serve the Church in Canada for generations.
Where We've Been & Where We're Going
Our Strategy
Vision Cast
Gathered a team of committed Catholics, sought seed funding, and laid the groundwork for a new institution dedicated to cultural renewal.
Building & Testing
Launched formation programs, courses, and publications. Magnalia reached every Catholic bishop and seminary rector in Canada. The Renewing Culture Conference brought speakers and seekers from across Western Canada. Book studies sprouted coast to coast.
Institutions for the Long Run
A trade school for Catholic men. Certificate and diploma programs in Christian leadership. A Canadian Catholic think-tank. The seeds planted now growing into institutions that will serve the Church for generations.
Our Patron
St. Gregory the Great
St. Gregory the Great (d. 604) serves as our patron because he taught the West how to love God during times of upheaval. A pope, doctor of the Church, and father of the medieval papacy, Gregory reformed the liturgy, sent missionaries to England, wrote extensively on pastoral care, and laid the foundations of Christendom from the ruins of the Roman Empire.
Gregory is the model builder of Catholic culture. At the Gregory the Great Institute we too hope to be builders of culture in Canada; we too hope to help strengthen islands of holiness where prayer, friendship, study, beauty and economic vitality can breathe together.
Our Identity
Our Crest
- Dove — Vivifying power of God's Holy Spirit
- Cross — Centrality of sacrifice by Christ and for Christ
- IOIC — "To restore all things in Christ" (Ephesians 1:10)
- Red Shield — Christendom's warriors and scholars
- Book of Chant — Authentic culture as fruit of revealed worship
- Wheat Sheaves — Eucharist, dignity of work, mission in Western Canada