The Church today venerates Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople, also known as St. Gregory Nazianzus.
Orthodoxy commemorates this great Church Father and Teacher, as one of the most important saints of Christian theology. St. Gregory was born in 330 in Nazianzus, Cappadocia, of Asia Minor. His father was Bishop of Nazianzus, whose name was also Gregory, and he taught him reading and writing his mother, Nonna, brought him up in the true Christian faith.
On the occasion of today’s feast day, a Divine Liturgy was held at the Patriarchal Cathedral of St. George at the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, with the Ecumenical Patriarch, His All Holiness Bartholomew I, officiating.
The Holy Relics of St. Gregory were also placed at the cathedral’s solea (the extension of the sanctuary’s platform) for veneration by the faithful.