Osiou Gregoriou monastery

Gregoriou

Γρηγορίου
View of the monastery from sea level.
Location within Mount Athos
Monastery information
Full name	Holy Monastery of Osiou Gregoriou
Order	Ecumenical Patriarchate
Dedicated to	Saint Nicholas
Diocese	Mount Athos
People
Founder(s)	Osios Gregorios
Prior	Archimandrite Elder Christophoros
Important associated figures	Archimandrite Elder Georgios Kapsanis (d. 2014)
Site
Location	Mount Athos, Greece
Coordinates	40°10′45″N 24°15′20″E / 40.1793°N 24.2555°E / 40.1793; 24.2555Coordinates: 40°10′45″N 24°15′20″E / 40.1793°N 24.2555°E / 40.1793; 24.2555
Public access	Men only

Osiou Gregoriou monastery (Greek: Μονή Οσίου Γρηγορίου) is an Orthodox Christian monastery in the monastic state of Mount Athos in Greece. The monastery ranks seventeenth in the hierarchy of the Athonite monasteries. The monastery is built by the sea, on the southeastern side of the peninsula. It's close neighbours are Simonospetros and St Pauls Monasteries. Gregoriou is very much a pilgrim friendly monastery with a strong pastoral sense. Pilgrim visitors are high and well provided for. The choir singing is very traditional Byzantine chanting and is one of the highest standards on Mt Athos, with perhaps only Vatopedi outdoing it. When one visits Gregoriou and stays there for a few days one can feel like the monastery is almost completely girt by the sea, built as it is on a corner of land jutting into the sea, with only steep craggy rocks backed up behind it.

It was founded by Saint (Osios) Gregory (Gregorios) and it is dedicated to Saint Nicholas.

By the end of the 15h century, according to the Russian pilgrim Isaiah, the monastery was Serb.

In 1990 the monastery had 71 working monks. The monastery holds 279 manuscripts, of which 11 are on parchment, and it has approximately 6,000 printed books.