Venerable Gregory of Athos

The "Gregory of Athos" entry cannot be confidently identified with a specific historical figure. The original six feast dates were found to be contamination — bleed from unrelated Gregorys (St. Gregory the Theologian, the Synaxis of Three Hierarchs, St. Gregory of Nyssa, St. Gregory the Dialogist) — and have been removed as unreliable. The founder of Grigoriou Monastery on Athos is an almost entirely undocumented 14th-century figure, sometimes linked to a disciple of St. Gregory of Sinai, but unrelated to a 19th-century figure. Among 19th-century candidates checked — Confessor Gregory (a Cappadocian Greek elder at a kellion near Pantokrator Monastery) and Schemamonk Gregory (Ratiani, a Georgian nobleman, c. 1820–1890) — neither is confirmed by sources to match this specific entry. The record is retained pending further research but hidden from the public calendar until a confident identification is made.