St Gregory the Theologian
Polyeleos. Kept with the Polyeleos at Matins.
Commemorated today
- Our Father among the Saints Gregory the Theologian, Archbishop of Constantinople (389)Hierarch · d. 389 life on this site
The life we have written
Saint Gregory the Theologian
A reluctant pastor with a poet’s soul entered a divided capital and proclaimed the Holy Trinity with such clarity that the Church remembers him simply as “the Theologian.”
- Era
- c. 329–c. 390
- Region
- Cappadocia and Constantinople
- Category
- Hierarch, Church Father, poet, and one of the Three Holy Hierarchs
- Feast
- January 25
Appointed readings
- Composite 2 – Proverbs 10, 3, 8
- Composite 4 – Proverbs 10; Wisdom of Solomon 6, 7, 8, 9
- Wisdom of Solomon 4:7–15
- John 10:1–9
- 1 Corinthians 12:7–11
- John 10:9–16
- Hebrews 7:26–8:2 continues in 8
About this page. This is the Menaion date — the fixed calendar. Parishes on the New Calendar keep it on January 25 by the civil calendar. On the Julian calendar this same commemoration is kept on February 7 by the civil calendar. The movable cycle, which turns on the date of Pascha and changes every year, is on the calendar page. Where a life has been written on this site the name links to it; where it has not, only what the commemoration itself attests is shown, and nothing is added to it.