Gregory of Nyssa
- Born
- c. 335
- Died
- unknown; still alive in 394
- Bishop of
- Nyssa
- Wrote in
- Greek
Contemporary timeline
His life beside those who lived in his time, from the year 310 to 460.
People
Movements he opposed
Events
- A person's life
- Estimated birth
- Unknown birth
- Known to be alive; death date unknown
- Active between two years
- Event
- Received as ecumenical by the Catholic and Orthodox Churches
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Who he was
Basil's younger brother and the most speculative of the Cappadocian Fathers, bishop of Nyssa and a participant at the Council of Constantinople (381). He developed a theology of the soul's endless progress toward God and of apokatastasis, which later tradition read in different ways.
- Region
- Cappadocia (Asia Minor)
- Language
- Greek
- Role
- Bishop of Nyssa
- Died
- unknown; still alive in 394
His writings
3 writings, c. 380–390
c. 380–383
c. 385
c. 390