Gregoriou Monastery (Athos) |Holy Monastery of Gregoriou| |Rank
or attached monastery||Seventeenth| |Type of
community||Cenobitic Monastery| |Founded||14th Century by St.
Gregory the Younger| |Music used||Byzantine chant| |Feastdays
celebrated||Nicholas of Myra| The Gregoriou Monastery (Greek:
Γρηγορίου) is situated on the southwest side of the Athos
Peninsula in northern Greece, between the monasteries of
Dionysiou and Simonopetra. Gregoriou originally was dedicated to
the St. Nicholas but later was renamed in honor of its founder,
Gregory. It is ranked seventeenth in the hierarchical order of
the twenty monasteries located on the Mount Athos peninsula.
Gregoriou is reputed to be one of the most well-organized and
strict coenobitic monasteries on the Mount Athos peninsula. The
monastery was founded by St. Gregory of Mount Athos (Younger) in
the fourteenth century when he came to Mount Athos to pursue
asceticism. Over the next several centuries little is known
about the monastery other than that it suffered s