Gregorios 163 | Prosopography of the Byzantine Empire |
| Sex | M |
| Floruit | L VIII/E IX |
| PmbZ No. | 2404 |
| Religion | Iconophile |
| Locations | Akritas (Monastery of, Constantinople) (residence); Constantinople (residence); Rome (residence); Jerusalem (residence); Seleukeia (Isauria); Crete (birthplace) |
| Occupation | Monk |
| Textual Sources | Synaxarium Ecclesiae Constantinopolitanae, Propylaeum ad AASS Novembris, ed. H. Delehaye, (Brussels, 1902) (hagiography) |
Gregorios 163 was born in Crete, the son of Theophanes 163 and Iouliane 1; he lived an ascetic life first at Seleukeia before going to Jerusalem in his twenty-sixth year, soon after the death of the emperor Leo IV (Leo 4, i.e. soon after 780); Gregorios 163 lived in Jerusalem for twelve years before going to Rome, where he became a monk and lived in a monastery for twenty years; in the reign of the emperor Michael I (Michael 7, 811-813) he accompanied the bishop of Synnada, Michael 6, back to Constantinople and entered the monastery of Akritas, where his ascetic austerities made him famous; he acquired the nickname "Monochiton" (μονοχίτων); he protested at the iconoclast policy of the emperor Leo V (Leo 15): Synax. Eccl. Const. 372, 22 - 374, 16 (BHG 2166); 367/368, 38.
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