Gregory of Nazianzus

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Gregory of Nazianzus

(ˌnæzɪˈænzəs)

(Biography) Saint. ?329–89 ad, Cappadocian theologian: bishop of Caesarea (370–79). Feast days: Jan 2, 25, and 30

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Gregory of Nazianus. the 4th-century trinitarian theologian and archbishop of Constantinople, the concept of perichoresis holds that the three elements of the triune godhead are not isolated from each other but exist in a state of mutual interpenetration.

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While the corpus of Greek patristic writers known and studied in western Europe during the Middle Ages pales in comparison to what would later be recovered and studied during the Renaissance, Greek patristic authors such as Chrysostom, Origen, Basel, Gregory of Nazianus, and others were in fact read in Latin translations in the monasteries, cathedral schools, and universities of medieval western Europe.