Orthodox calendar: October 13 is the day of remembrance of the Hieromartyr Gregory Bishop, enlightener of Great Armeniatranslated

20th Week after Pentecost.

Today, October 13, 2026, the Orthodox Church honors the memory of the saint. Gregory Bishop, enlightener of Greater Armenia (c. 335); St. Gregory of Pelshem, Vologda miracle worker (1442); St. Michael, first metropolitan Kievsky (992); mcc. Hripsimia, Gaiania and with them 35 holy virgins (beginning IV); sschmch. Procopius of the Presbyter (1918); sschmchch. Peter, Vyacheslav, Peter, Simeon, Vasily, Alexander the presbyters, Seraphim the deacon, priest. Alexandra, mchch. Alexy and Matthew, MC. Apollinaria (1937).

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Hieromartyr Gregory, enlightener of Greater Armenia, was born in 257. He came from the line of the Parthian kings Arsacids. The father of Saint Gregory, Anak, seeking the Armenian throne, killed his relative, King Kursar, for which the entire family of Anak was destroyed. Gregory was saved by a certain relative: he took the baby from Armenia to Caesarea in Cappadocia and raised him in the Christian faith. Having matured, Gregory married and had two sons, but soon became a widower.

Gregory raised his sons in piety. One of them, Orphan, later became a priest, and the second...