Gregory of Cyprus was a Persian monk, mystic and writer of the Church of the East.
[1] 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.
[1] Gregory had a reputation for receiving visions.
[2] His known writings, all in Syriac, include: Gregory is sometimes misidentified as the author of the Revelation of Saint Gregory.
[5] Gregory's writings were also used in the Syriac Orthodox Church.