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Saint Gregory is depicted full-length wearing a white sakkos (bishop’s chasuble) with red underside and olive crosses. He is holding the Gospel with his right hand and the open palm of his left hand is slightly downward. Saint Gregory is depicted full-length wearing a white sakkos (bishop’s chasuble) with red underside and olive crosses. He is holding the Gospel with his right hand and the open palm of his left hand is slightly downward.

Gregory the Theologian was the Archbishop of Constantinople, a Christian theologian, one of the Doctors of the Church, the follower of Basil the Great. He is venerated as a holy hierarch. 

The icon was restored by S.V. Filatov in the All-Union Research Institute for Restoration in 1976.