Gregorios 4 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VII |
| Dates | 695 (taq) / 695 (tpq) |
| PmbZ No. | 2358 |
| Locations | Florus (Monastery of) (officeplace); Florus (Monastery of) (residence); Constantinople (residence); Florus (Monastery of); Cappadocia; Constantinople; Cappadocia (birthplace) |
| Occupation | Hegoumenos; Monk |
| Titles | Hegoumenos, Florus (office); Kleisourarches (office) |
| Textual Sources | Nicephorus, Breviarium Historiae, ed. C. Mango, Nikephoros, Patriarch of Constantinople: Short History; prev. ed. C. de Boor Nicephori ArchiepiscopiConstantinopolitani Opuscula Historica Leipzig 1880 (history); Theophanes Confessor, Chronographia, ed. C. de Boor, 2 vols. (Leipzig, 1883-85, repr. Hildesheim/NewYork, 1980); tr. and comm. C. Mango and R. Scott, The Chronicle of Theophanes Confessor, Oxford 1997 (chronicle) |
Gregorios 4 was a native of Cappadocia: Nic. Brev. de Boor 38, Mango 40, Theoph. AM 6187 (Γρηγόριος ὁ Καππάδοξ). He was once a kleisouriarch (ὁ καὶ κλεισουριάρχης γενόμενος): Theoph. AM 6187. He then became a monk and in 695 was hegoumenos of the monastery of Phloros at Constantinople: Nic. Brev. de Boor 38.10, Mango 40 (μοναχὸς καὶ ἡγούμενος ἐν τῇ Φλώρου μονῇ), Theoph. AM 6187 (ἔπειτα δὲ μοναχὸς καὶ ἡγούμενος τῶν Φλώρου). Gregorios 4 and Paulos 8 were friends of Leontios 2; they visited him in prison and encouraged him with prophecies that he would become emperor; in 695 they persuaded him to revolt against Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1): Nic. Brev. de Boor 38, Mango 40, Theoph. AM 6187.
Gregorios 4 was evidently a military man who retired to become a monk; as a kleisouriarch he perhaps served on the eastern front and may have met Leontios 2 there when the latter was strategos of the Anatolikoi. As they were close friends he may have served under Leontios 2 and his own withdrawal from a public career was perhaps connected with the imprisonment of Leontios 2 by Justinian II (Ioustinianos 1) in 692.
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