Saints

• George of Mitylene

  George the Confessor was bishop of Mitylene on Lesbos in the last phase of the iconoclast struggle, holding the see in the years around 820–...

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  George of Mytilene

  George the Confessor was bishop of Mytilene on the island of Lesbos in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, a wonderworker and almsgiv...

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  George of Vladimir

  George (Yuri) Vsevolodovich (1189–1238) was Great Prince of Vladimir and the central figure of the Russian resistance to the Mongol invasion...

• George the Chozebite

  George the Chozebite (mid-sixth century – c. 625) was one of the great ascetics of the Judean desert, abbot of the Monastery of Choziba in t...

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  George the Great Martyr

  George the Trophy-bearer (†303) is the most universally venerated of the martyrs of the East, honoured from Ethiopia to England as Μεγαλομάρ...

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  George the Hagiorite

  George the Hagiorite — Giorgi Mtatsmindeli, "George of the Holy Mountain" — was the greatest of the Georgian translators, abbot of the Monas...

• George the Iberian

  George the Iberian was the Georgian monk who was elected abbot of the Monastery of the Iberians (Iviron) on Mount Athos after Euthymius the...

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  George the New of Sofia

  George the New (c. 1497 – 1515), called also George of Kratovo, was a young Christian goldsmith burned alive at Sofia (the Byzantine Sredets...

• George the Recluse of the Black Mountain

  George the God-bearer (died 1068) was a Georgian ascetic of the Black Mountain above Antioch, the great cosmopolitan monastic massif of the...

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  Gerasim of Vologda

  Gerasim of Vologda (early 12th century – 1178) is honoured as the first monastic founder and wonderworker of the Vologda land in the Russian...

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  Gerasimus of Boldino

  Gerasimus (1490–1554) was the great monastic coloniser of the Smolensk lands. Born at Pereslavl-Zalessky, he attached himself at thirteen to...

• Gerasimus of Cephalonia

  Gerasimus of Cephalonia (c. 1509–1579) is the great saint and heavenly patron of the Ionian island of Cephalonia (Kefalonia). Born to the no...

• Gerasimus of Karpenisi

  Gerasimus the New (c. 1787 – 3 July 1812) was a new venerable-martyr of the last Ottoman generation, born George at Megalo Chorio in the mou...

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  Gerasimus of the Jordan

  Gerasimus of the Jordan (early 5th century – 475) is one of the great fathers of the Palestinian desert, the founder of a celebrated lavra i...

• Gerasimus, Pitirim and Jonah of Perm

  Gerasimus, Pitirim and Jonah were three successive bishops of Great Perm, seated at Ust-Vym on the Vychegda, who in the fifteenth century ca...

• Germanus of Auxerre

  Germanus was a Gallo-Roman advocate and provincial governor who was seized by his own city, tonsured against his will and made bishop of Aux...

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  Germanus of Constantinople

  Germanus (c. 634/640 – c. 740) was Patriarch of Constantinople from 715 to 730 and the first great confessor of the holy icons. Son of a pat...

• Germanus of Paris

  Germanus (c. 496–576) was bishop of Paris for the last twenty years of his life and the most respected churchman in the Frankish kingdoms of...

• Gerontios of Saint Anna's Skete

  Gerontios was the abbot of Bouleuteria, one of the small ancient monasteries of the Holy Mountain, which stood exposed on the coast and was...

• Gerontius and the Martyrs of David-Gareji

  In the summer of 1851 a raiding party of Dagestanis fell upon the ancient cave-monastery of David-Gareji in the semi-desert of Kakheti, plun...

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  Gertrude of Nivelles

  Gertrude of Nivelles (c. 626–659) was a Frankish abbess of the seventh century and a saint of the undivided Western Church, kept on March 17...

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  Glaphyra the Virgin

  Glaphyra was a Christian virgin of the imperial household at Nicomedia, a maidservant of the empress Constantia, wife of Licinius and half-s...

• Gleb of Vladimir

  Gleb Andreevich (c. 1155–1174), baptised George, was the younger son of the Grand Prince Andrew Bogolyubsky of Vladimir. He is one of the ve...

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  Glyceria of Heraclea

  Glyceria was a young noblewoman of Trajanopolis in Thrace, daughter of a man named Macarius who had held the rank of consul, who came to the...

• Glykeria of Novgorod

  Glykeria was a maiden of Great Novgorod, daughter of Panteleimon, an official of Legoshcha Street, who reposed about the year 1522 and was b...

• Golinduc of Persia

  Golinduc was a Persian noblewoman, the wife of the chief magus of the Sasanian court, who was converted by a vision, baptised with the name...

• Gorazd, Sabbas and Angelar

  Gorazd, Sabbas and Angelar are three of the five chief disciples of Cyril and Methodius who carried the Slavonic letters and liturgy out of...

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  Gordius of Caesarea

  Gordius (†c. 320) was a soldier-martyr of Caesarea in Cappadocia, a centurion of the Roman army who, when the persecution of the Christians...

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  Gorgonia

  Gorgonia (c. 325 – c. 372) was the elder sister of Gregory the Theologian and the daughter of the holy parents Gregory the Elder, bishop of...

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  Gregory Palamas

  Gregory Palamas (c. 1296–1359), Archbishop of Thessalonica, is the great theologian of the Orthodox spiritual tradition and the defender of...

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  Gregory V of Constantinople

  Gregory V (1746–1821) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople three times over, a reforming and deeply pastoral hierarch, and — at the ou...

• Gregory and Cassian of Avnezh

  Gregory and Cassian were ascetics of the Vologda forest country who founded a monastery of the Holy Trinity at Avnezh, on the waters of the...

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  Gregory of Agrigentum

  Gregory of Agrigentum (Akragas) was a Sicilian-born bishop and biblical exegete of the sixth century, venerated as a hierarch and wonderwork...

• Gregory of Crete

  Gregory of Crete (760 – c. 820) was a monk of the iconoclast age whose long wandering carried him from his native island through Seleucia, J...

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  Gregory of Decapolis

  Gregory the Decapolite (c. 780–c. 842) was one of the great wandering ascetics of the age of the second iconoclasm, a monk of the Decapolis...

• Gregory of Grigoriou

  Gregory of Grigoriou was the founder and first builder of the monastery of Grigoriou on Mount Athos, one of the twenty great houses of the H...

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  Gregory of Nyssa

  Gregory of Nyssa (c. 335 – c. 395) was Bishop of Nyssa in Cappadocia and the youngest of the three great Cappadocian Fathers — the brother o...

• Gregory of Ohrid

  Gregory of Ohrid was a saint of the church of Ohrid (Achris), in the region of the ancient archbishopric, remembered as a faithful teacher a...

• Gregory of Omirits

  Gregory of Omirits (Greek Gregentios; died c. 552) was, in the tradition, the missionary archbishop sent from Alexandria to organise the Chu...

• Gregory of Sinai

  Gregory the Sinaite (c. 1265–1346) is the father of the fourteenth-century hesychast revival: the monk who gathered up the ancient disciplin...

• Gregory of Wallachia

  Gregory the Teacher — Grigorie Dascălul — was a monk of Neamț formed in the Paisian tradition, one of the great translators of the Greek Fat...

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  Gregory the Dialogist

  Gregory the Dialogist (c. 540 – 604), known in the West as Gregory the Great, was Pope of Rome from 590 to 604 and is honoured by East and W...

• Gregory the Iconographer of the Caves

  Gregory the Iconographer was a monk of the Monastery of the Caves at Kiev and the companion in that craft of Alypius, the first named icon-p...

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  Gregory the Illuminator

  Gregory the Illuminator (c. 257 – c. 331) was the apostle of Armenia: a Parthian noble of the Arsacid line who, after enduring torture and s...

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  Gregory the Theologian

  Gregory the Theologian (c. 329 – 389/390), Gregory of Nazianzus, was Archbishop of Constantinople and — with Basil the Great and John Chryso...

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  Gregory the Wonderworker

  Gregory the Wonderworker (c. 213 – c. 270), bishop of Neocaesarea in Pontus, was the great missionary hierarch of third-century Asia Minor a...

• Gudwal of Brittany

  Gudwal — Gurval in Breton, Gudwall in the older English books — was a Welshman of noble family, ordained early and made bishop, who in the s...

• Gurias of Kazan

  Gurias of Kazan (in the world Gregory Rugotin, c. 1500–1563) was the first archbishop of Kazan and the apostle of the newly-conquered Tatar...

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  Gurias, Samonas and Abibus

  Gurias, Samonas and Abibus are the three great martyr-confessors of Edessa in Syria (Mesopotamia), venerated together though they died sixte...

• Habakkuk the New Martyr

  Habakkuk was a Greek Christian — by the tradition a monk, and probably an Athonite — who bore witness to Christ and was put to death at Thes...