Gregory of Nazianzus

Christian saint and theologian (c. 329 – 390)

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Lived 329–389, aged 60
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    329–389
    Aged 60
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Updated 2026-06-21

One of only three men in Orthodox history granted the formal epithet "Theologian" — alongside John the Apostle — he shaped how Christianity talks about the Trinity, bridging Greek philosophy and Church doctrine with rhetorical precision that still echoes in theological argument today.

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Gregory of Nazianzus was born around 329, a classically trained orator and philosopher who would infuse Hellenism into the early Church and set the template for Byzantine theological style. Alongside Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nyssa — the trio known as the Cappadocian Fathers — he refined Trinitarian doctrine at a hinge moment when Greek and Latin theologians were hammering out how three Persons relate within one God. He served briefly as Archbishop of Constantinople from 380 to 381, but his lasting mark was rhetorical: the patristic age's most accomplished stylist, writing theology that…

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Gregory of Nazianzus
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I offer this gift to my God, I dedicate this gift to Him. Only this remains to me as my treasure. I gave up everything else at the command of the Spirit.
Concerning his literary gift, "St. Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople"
Gregory of Nazianzus
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I am an organ of the Lord, and sweetly... do I glorify the King, all atremble before Him.
"St. Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople"
Gregory of Nazianzus
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Let me be as the Prophet Jonah! I was responsible for the storm, but I would sacrifice myself for the salvation of the ship. Seize me and throw me...
Concerning his resignment from his office as Patriarch of Constantinople, "St. Gregory the Theologian the Archbishop of Constantinople"
Gregory of Nazianzus
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It is more important that we should remember God than that we should breathe.
On God and Christ: The Five Theological Orations and Two Letters to Cledonius (St. Vladimir's Seminary Press: 2002), Oration 27
Gregory of Nazianzus
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For my sake He was called a curse, who destroyed my curse (Gal 3:13); and sin, who taketh away the sin of the world (2 Cor 5:21)...
Fourth Theological Oration (Oration 30), V.
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