Saint gregory

St. Gregory the Great

1796-1799. Oil on canvas. 116 x 191,5 cm. Museo del Romanticismo, Madrid.

By His Eminence Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos and Agiou Vlasiou Today's Sunday, the Second Sunday of Great Lent, our Church celebrates the memory of Saint Gregory Palamas, Archbishop of Thessaloniki, who lived in the fourteenth century and is a major patristic figure, whose teachings are of great importance for the Orthodox Church. The sacred hymnographer of the service of the Saint, who was the great hesychast and Patriarch of Constantinople Saint Philotheos Kokkinos, a fellow monk…

St. Gregory Palamas

Saint Gregory - Greek Orthodox Byzantine wooden icon

The following is from Scott Hahn’s latest book, The Creed: Professing the Faith Through the Ages, now available through Emmaus Road Publishing.Gregory of Nyssa, both brilliant and holy, was recognized by his contemporaries and peers as a man who most perfectly embodied the Council of Co

Άγιος Γρηγόριος ο Θεολόγος, Αρχιεπίσκοπος Κωνσταντινουπόλεως / Saint Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople

‘You shall not make an image of anything in the heavens above, or in the earth below, or in the sea’ (cf. Ex 20.4), in such a way that you worship these things and glorify them as gods. For all are…