Venerable Gregory of Ochrid

Gregory of Ochrid is an early-eleventh-century saint of the church of Ochrid, in the region of present-day North Macedonia that in his lifetime fell within the Bulgarian ecclesiastical and cultural sphere. The surviving notices of him are brief: he is remembered as a teacher and shepherd of his flock and is commemorated on January 8. The sources record his repose in the year 1012.

The principal trace of his memory is an inscription in the church of Holy Wisdom (Hagia Sophia) in Ochrid, which styles him "Gregory the Wise" (rendered in some accounts as "Gregory, the all-wise"). Several calendars and lists identify him as a bishop of Ochrid; one English calendar designates him "bishop of Moesia," reflecting the wide territory attached to the see of Ochrid in this period. The in-repository record classes him among the venerable (monastic) saints and assigns his origin to Bulgaria.

Because the documentary record is so slight, little can be said of his life beyond these few details, and the synaxaria characterize him chiefly through his pastoral office rather than through a narrative of events. He belongs to the broad company of saints associated with Ochrid as a center of Slavonic Christian learning in the centuries following its evangelization.