Gregory IV of Athens

He became a teacher in the New Academy, a famous educational institution in Moscopole, and leading center of Greek culture at the time.

In the same year, while Patriarch of Constantinople was Gregory V, he was appointed Archbishop of Euboea, also called "Bishop of Evripos".

In the summer of 1821, when the Greek War of Independence spread to Euboea, the Turks put him under detention until January 1823.

[5][6] It seems though, that before his detention Gregory had already been involved in the Revolution, because a good number of Epirots, and indeed many from Gjirokastër, had been fighting in Euboea.

[10] it For this work one of his biographers Kourilas considers Gregory as "the founder of the Albanian philology" adding that "...albanologists use this translation as basic text but they only mention his (Gregory's) name ... but nothing about his home country[clarification needed (about his home country)] and life" (Kourilas, p. 349).