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Venerable Gregory the Byzantine

Also known as Gregory of Mount Athos

A native of Constantinople who took up monastic life at the Great Lavra of St Athanasius on Mount Athos, where he became a spiritual guide of St Gregory Palamas.

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Notes

Spiritual father of St Gregory Palamas; dated to the 14th century on that basis.

Sources: OCA Synaxarion (oca.org), Lives of the Saints