Gregory of Cyprus

Gregory of Cyprus was a Persian monk, mystic and writer of the Church of the East. Born at Ahvaz in the 6th century, he spent a period of exile working as a gardener for a Greek Orthodox monastery on the island of Cyprus. He afterwards settled on Mount Izla.

Gregory had a reputation for receiving visions. His known writings, all in Syriac, include: Chapters on Prayer Treatise on the Monastic Life, of which only the seventh and last book, "On Divine Contemplation", survives three letters, one to a disciple named Epiphanios

Gregory is sometimes misidentified as the author of the Revelation of Saint Gregory. Gregory's writings were also used in the Syriac Orthodox Church.