Gregorios 73 was the father of St Stephen the Younger (Stephanos 2); he was the husband of Anna 5: Vita Steph. Iun. 91.24-27 (1076A), 102.24 (1088D) (his name is recorded at 102.26). He was neither of high rank nor was he wealthy; he earned his living by his own efforts and used to share his earnings with the poor; he and his wife lived a pious life in Constantinople, in their home near the Imperial Forum on the slope of the Staurion, opposite the Domus of Constans: Vita Steph. Iun. 91.19-21 (1073C-D) (οἰκῶν πρὸς τὸ τῆς βασιλικῆς δημοσίας λεωφόρου πρανὲς, ἐν ᾧ ἀνίδρυται καὶ ἐπιλέγεται τὸ Σταυρίον, ἐξ οὗπερ πρὸς τὸ κάταντες μέρος εἰσὶν εὐμεγέθεις οἰκίαι προσαγορευόμεναι τὰ Κώνστα). They had two daughters, both born many years before Stephanos 2 (Theodote 2 and Anonyma 36): Vita Steph. Iun. 91.23-27 (1073D-1076A).

Shortly before the birth of Stephanos 2 Gregorios 73 and his wife were present at the consecration of the patriarch Germanos I (Germanos 8) (in August 715): Vita Steph. Iun. 93.9-25 (1077A-B). When the emperor Leo III (Leo 3) began to create trouble by his iconoclast policies, Gregorios 73 removed his family from Constantinople and went to Mt Auxentius (in Bithynia) to try to enrol their son among the monks there under Ioannes 234; the date was c. 731; Stephanos 2 was accepted and Gregorios 73 and Anna 5 returned to Constantinople (τὰ οἰκεῖα): Vita Steph. Iun. 101.12-104.12 (1088A-1089C). Gregorios 73 died in Constantinople and Stephanos 2 returned to sell off his property and take Anna 5 and Theodote 2 to Mt Auxentius to become nuns; the other daughter was already a nun in Constantinople: Vita Steph. Iun. 107.6-10 (1093C). This was before the death of Ioannes 234, in c. 745.

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