Gregory of Sinai

Gregory of Sinai
Saint
Bornc. 1260s
Smyrna (modern-day İzmir, Turkey)
Died1346
Paroria, Bulgaria
Honored inEastern Orthodoxy
Feast8 August

Gregory of Sinai, or in Serbian and Bulgarian Grigorije Sinaita (c. 1260s – 27 November 1346), was a Greek Christian monk and writer from Smyrna. He was instrumental in the emergence of hesychasm on Mount Athos in the early 14th century.