Pope Gregory III (; died 28 November 741) was
Pope from 11 February 731 to his death in 741. His pontificate, like that of his predecessor, was disturbed by the
iconoclastic controversy in the
Byzantine Empire, and by the ongoing advance of the
Lombards, in which he invoked the intervention of
Charles Martel, although ultimately in vain. He was the last Pope born outside of Europe until the election of
Pope Francis in 2013, which was 1,272 years later.