* Gregory of Narek, Armenia poet, philosopher and theologian

* Gregory of Narek, Armenian monk, poet, and theologian

Gregory of Narek ·

* Gregory of Narek ( Krikor Naregatsi ) – ( 951-1003 ) religious poet

Born c. 950 to a family of scholarly churchmen, St. Gregory entered Narek Monastery on the south-east shore of Lake Van at a young age.

Written shortly before the first millennium of Christianity, the prayers of St. Gregory of Narek have long been recognized as gems of Christian literature.

The construction of the cathedral was completed in 2005 and named after Saint Gregory of Narek, in the honour of the thousandth anniversary of his Book of Lamentations.

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Gregory was the son of the Armenian Parthian nobles Anak and Okohe.

On the coming of his age, Gregory married a woman called Miriam a devout Christian who was the daughter of a Christian Armenian Prince in Cappadocia.

A number of prayers, and about thirty of the canons of the Armenian Church are ascribed to Gregory the Illuminator.

A Life of Gregory by the Vartabed Matthew was published in the Armenian language at Venice in 1749 and was translated into English by the Rev.

* A. Terian, Patriotism And Piety In Armenian Christianity: The Early Panegyrics On Saint Gregory, St Vladimir ’ s Seminary Press, 2005

* Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church ( approximate date )

* Gregory the Illuminator, founder and patron saint of the Armenian Church ( approximate date )

At this point Stavros becomes reacquainted with Hohannes ( Gregory Rozakis ), a young Armenian, whom Stavros aided with food and clothing during his original voyage to Istanbul.

Kingdom of Albania was converted to Christianity at the start of the 4th century by none other than the Armenian evangelizer St. Gregory the Enlightener ( Arm.

Shortly after Armenia adopted Christianity as its state religion ( 301 AD ), the Caucasian Albanian king Urnayr went to the See of the Armenian Apostolic Church to receive baptism from St. Gregory the Illuminator, the first Patriarch of Armenia.

Tiridates declared Gregory to be the first Catholicos of the Armenian Church and sent him to Caesarea to be consecrated.

Saint Gregory the Illuminator Cathedral ( 1940 ) in Antelias, LebanonThe Catholicosate of the Great House of Cilicia () located in Antelias, Lebanon, is a regional See of the Armenian Apostolic Church and is an autonomous church with jurisdiction over certain segments of the Armenian diaspora.

* The Armenian Apostolic Church, sometimes called the Gregorian Church after Saint Gregory the Illuminator

Two former Armenian capitals are located in this region ( Artashat ( Artaxata ) and Dvin ) as well as the Khor Virap monastery, significant as the place of Gregory the Illuminator's 13-year imprisonment and the closest point to Mount Ararat within Armenian borders.

* Gregory VI of Cilicia aka Gregory VI Apirat or Grigor VI Apirat, catholicos of the Armenian Church

* Finally, the Greek, Syriac, and Armenian Catenæ contain fragments attributed more or less correctly to Gregory.

Gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk Gregory of Nicopolis ( Gregory Makar ) ( Grégoire de Nicopolis ).

According to the 5th-century Armenian annals, St. Gregory had a vision of Christ descending from heaven and striking the earth with a golden hammer to show where the cathedral should be built.

Another religious landmark in Singapore is the Armenian Church of Gregory the Illuminator, the oldest church in Singapore, which was completed in 1836.

As the story would later be told by the Anglo-Saxon monk and historian Bede, Gregory was struck by the unusual appearance of the slaves and asked about their background.

On Mount Athos, Barlaam encountered Hesychasts and heard descriptions of their practices, also reading the writings of the teacher in Hesychasm of St Gregory Palamas, himself an Athonite monk.

Coming to Rome during the pontificate of Pope Gregory III, he was placed in the monastery of St. Chrysogonus, where he was ordained a Benedictine monk.

* The West Saxon monk Winifrid is sent by Pope Gregory II, who gives him the name Boniface, to evangelize in Germany and reorganize the church there.

A monk of the Cluniac order, he was created cardinal priest of the Titulus S. Clementi by Pope Gregory VII ( 1073 – 85 ) about 1076, and was consecrated pope in succession to Pope Urban II ( 1088 – 99 ) on 19 August 1099.

* Lesser Feasts and Commemorations on the Lutheran liturgical calendar include Anthony of Egypt on January 17, Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, martyr Henry of Uppsala on January 19, Timothy, Titus and Silas, missionaries St Timothy, St Titus and St Silas Day on January 26, Ansgar, Bishop of Hamburg, missionary to Denmark and Sweden St Ansgar on February 3, Cyril, monk and Methodius, bishop, missionaries to the Slavs St Cyril and St Methodius on February 14, Gregory the Great on March 12, St Patrick on March 17, Olavus Petri, priest and Laurentius Petri, Bishop of Uppsala, on April 19, St Anselm on April 21, Catherine of Siena on April 29, St Athanasius on May 2, St Monica on May 4, Eric IX of Sweden on May 18, St Boniface on June 5, Basil the Great, Gregory of Nyssa and Gregory of Nazianzus on June 14, Benedict of Nursia on July 11, Birgitta of Sweden on July 23, St Anne, Mother of Mary on July 26, St Dominic on August 8, Augustine of Hippo on August 28, St Cyprian on September 16, Teresa of Avila on October 15, Martin de Porres on November 3, Martin of Tours on November 11, Elizabeth of Hungary on November 17, St Lucy on December 13.

The Liber Pontificalis praises him for " filling the church with clergy ," in contrast to Gregory, who rose rapidly from simple monk to bishop of Rome.

Setting out shortly after Christmas, he met with abbot Hugh of Cluny at Besançon, where he was joined by the young monk Hildebrand, who afterwards became Pope Gregory VII ; arriving in pilgrim garb at Rome in the following February, he was received with much cordiality, and at his consecration assumed the name Leo IX.

In this endeavour, Pope Gregory I sent a group of clerics headed by the monk Augustine to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity and to establish new churches and dioceses in their territory.

Gregory Palamas ( Γρηγόριος Παλαμάς ) ( 1296 – 1359 ) was a monk of Mount Athos in Greece and later the Archbishop of Thessaloniki known as a preeminent theologian of Hesychasm.

Gregory Gerrer, OSB, monk, artist, founder of Mabee-Gerrer Museum of Art

Paulinus was a monk from Rome sent to the Kingdom of Kent by Pope Gregory I in 601, along with Mellitus and others, as part of the second group of missionaries sent to convert the Anglo-Saxons to Christianity.

By this time, Henry IV was no longer a child, and he continued to appoint his own bishops and he reacted to this declaration by sending Gregory VII a letter in which he withdrew his imperial support of Gregory as pope in no uncertain terms: the letter was headed " Henry, king not through usurpation but through the holy ordination of God, to Hildebrand, at present not pope but false monk ".< ref name =" HalsallPaul "> Halsall, Paul.

They are works by early Christian and Byzantine churchmen that would have been available to Kirill in Slavonic translations: John Chrysostom, Epiphanius of Salamis, Ephrem of Syrus, Gregory of Nazianzus, Eusebius of Caesarea, and the scholia of Nicetas of Heraclea, Titus of Bostra, Theophylact of Ohrid, and the chronicler George the monk ( George Hamartolus ).

Saint Gregory Palamas, bishop of Thessalonica, an experienced Athonite monk, defended Orthodox spirituality against the attacks of Barlaam of Calabria, and left numerous important works on the spiritual life.

Almost all evidence of a Jewish presence in England would have been wiped out if it had not been for the efforts of one monk, Gregory of Huntingdon, who purchased all the Jewish texts he could to begin translating them.

There are various theories on who was the author: either an anonymous Benedictine monk of Dioclea ( modern Bar ) around 1142-1199 ; or Gregory ( Grgur ), Archbishop of Antivari 1172-1196 ; or the Cistercian Rudger ( Rudiger ), Archbishop of Antivari 1299-1301.

He brought here a relic of the master, handed it over to him by monk Gregory Nazianzus.