Which St. Gregory? Every Saint Named Gregory

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Which St. Gregory? 15 saints and blesseds named Gregory have full entries in this encyclopedia. They are listed below with their dates, feast days and a line on who each one was, arranged century by century.

A name carries a story, and many holy men and women have carried this one. Whether you are choosing a baptismal or confirmation name, looking for the saint behind a parish or a feast, or simply trying to tell one St. Gregory from another, we hope this page helps you find the right one, and that you will ask that saint's prayers along the way. Among the best loved are St. Gregory the Great, St. Gregory of Nazianzus and Blessed Gregory X.

3rd century

  • St. Gregory Thaumaturgus c. 213–c. 270 · Feast day November 17

    St. Gregory Thaumaturgus (c. 213–c. 270), "the Wonderworker," was a pupil of Origen who became bishop of his hometown, Neocaesarea in Pontus (now Niksar, Turkey).

4th century

  • St. Gregory the Illuminator c. 257–c. 331 · Feast day September 30

    St. Gregory the Illuminator (about 257 to about 331) is the apostle of Armenia.

  • St. Gregory of Nazianzus c. 330–389 · Feast day January 2

    St. Gregory of Nazianzus (about 330–390) was a bishop from Cappadocia whose five sermons on the Trinity, preached in Constantinople in 380, earned him the title "the Theologian." He was the lifelong friend of St. Basil…

  • St. Gregory of Nyssa c. 335–c. 394 · Feast day January 10

    St. Gregory of Nyssa (about 335 to after 394) was a bishop, the younger brother of St. Basil and St. Macrina, and one of the Cappadocian Fathers who defended faith in the Trinity at Constantinople in 381.

6th century

  • St. Gregory of Tours 538–593 · Feast day November 17

    St. Gregory of Tours (538/539–593/594) was the bishop of Tours in Gaul from 573 and the author of the History of the Franks, our main source for Clovis and the early Frankish kingdoms.

7th century

  • St. Gregory the Great c. 540–604 · Feast day September 3

    Pope St. Gregory the Great (about 540–604) was a Roman prefect who became a monk and then, against his will, pope from 590 to 604.

8th century

  • Pope St. Gregory II died 731 · Feast day February 11

    Pope St. Gregory II led the Church from 715 to 731.

  • Pope St. Gregory III died 741 · Feast day November 28

    Pope St. Gregory III led the Church from 731 to 741.

9th century

  • St. Gregory of Khandzta 759–861 · Feast day October 5

    St. Gregory of Khandzta (759–861) was a Georgian priest and monk who fled a bishop's miter to live in the wilderness of Klarjeti, in southwestern Georgia, where he built the monastery of Khandzta and became father of a…

11th century

  • St. Gregory of Narek c. 950–c. 1003 · Feast day February 27

    St. Gregory of Narek (about 950–1003) was an Armenian monk, priest and poet of the monastery of Narek near Lake Van.

  • Pope St. Gregory VII 1020–1085 · Feast day May 25

    Pope St. Gregory VII (Hildebrand, about 1020–1085) was a Benedictine monk who became pope in 1073 and fought to free the Church from simony, a corrupt clergy and lay control of bishops.

13th century

  • Blessed Gregory X c. 1210–1276 · Feast day January 10

    Blessed Gregory X (Teobaldo Visconti, about 1210–1276) was elected pope in 1271, after the longest vacancy in the Church's history, while on crusade at Acre.

14th century

  • St. Gregory of Sinai c. 1265–1346 · Feast day August 8

    St. Gregory of Sinai (about 1265–1346) was a Greek monk who learned the prayer of the heart on Crete, taught it to many disciples on Mount Athos.

  • St. Gregory Palamas 1296–1359 · Feast day November 14

    St. Gregory Palamas (1296–1359) was a monk of Mount Athos and archbishop of Thessaloniki who defended the hesychasts' silent Jesus Prayer.

20th century

  • St. Gregory Grassi 1833–1900 · Feast day July 9

    St. Gregory Grassi (1833–1900) was an Italian Franciscan who served for almost forty years as a missionary and bishop in Shanxi, northern China.

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