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[[File:St Gregentios of Himyaritia.jpg|right|thumb|Saint Gregentios of [[w:Himyarite Kingdom|Himyaritia]].]]
Our father among the [[Saint|saints]] '''Gregentios of Himyaritia''',<ref name=SYNAX>Great [[Synaxarion|Synaxaristes]] {{el icon}}: ''[http://www.synaxarion.gr/gr/sid/1489/sxsaintinfo.aspx Ὁ Ὅσιος Γρηγέντιος Ἐπίσκοπος Αἰθιοπίας].'' 19 Δεκεμβρίου. ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.</ref><ref name=MOSPAT>''[http://www.holytrinityorthodox.com/calendar/los/December/19-05.htm Sainted Gregory, Bishop of Omiritia (Himyaritia)].'' HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).</ref> also ''Gregentios of [[w:Zafar, Yemen|Taphar]]'',<ref>Albrecht Berger (Ed.). ''[http://www.amazon.com/Gregentios-Archbishop-Taphar-Millennium-Studies/dp/3110184451 Life And Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar].'' Millennium Studies 7. Walter de Gruyter, Tra edition, October 30, 2006. 915 pp. ISBN 9783110184457</ref> ''Gregentios of Ethiopia'',<ref name=SYNAX/> ''Gregentius of Himyar'',<ref>''[http://www.mpc.org.mk/english/Calendar/prologue.asp?id=2177 Saint Gregentius, Bishop of Himyar].'' Macedonian Orthodox Church - Archdiocese of Ohrid.</ref> ''Gregentius [[w:Zafar, Yemen|Tephrensis]]'',<ref>Gregentius Tephrensis. ''[http://books.google.ca/books?id=SBNuYgEACAAJ&dq=inauthor:%22Gregentius+Tephrensis%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=3b6SUITTKYfC0AGMjYCYBA&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAQ Disputatio cum Herbano Judaeo, Graece edita, cum Interpretatione ... N.K. Nic. Gulonij ...].'' 1603.</ref> ''Grigentius of Omir'',<ref name=PROLOGUE>Bishop [[Nikolai Velimirovic]]. ''[http://www.westsrbdio.org/prolog/prolog.htm Saint Gregory (Grigentius), Bishop of Omir].''  The Prologue from Ohrid. Serbian Orthodox Church Diocese of Western America.</ref> ''Gregory of Omiritia'',<ref name=MOSPAT/> or ''Gregory of Omirits'',<ref name=OCA>''[http://oca.org/FeastSaintsViewer.asp?SID=4&ID=1&FSID=103592 St Gregory the Archbishop of Omirits].'' OCA - Feasts and Saints.</ref> was the [[missionary]] Bishop of [[w:Himyarite Kingdom|Himyaritia]] (''Homer, Omirits'', in [[w:Arabia Felix|Sourthern Arabia]]) for over thirty years in the sixth century, when the area was under [[w:Kingdom of Aksum|Aksumite]] control, playing an important role in the restoration of [[Orthodox Christianity]] there after the persecution of [[w:Dhu Nuwas|Dunaan]] (''Dhû Nuwâs'').<ref>Sergew Hable-Selassie. ''[http://www.dacb.org/stories/ethiopia/gregentius_.html Gregentius, fl. 6th century, Orthodox].'' Dictionary of African Christian Biography.</ref> 

Saint Gregentios  was filled with the grace of [[God]] and possessed the gifts of healing and [[wonderworker|wonderworking]] even in his youth.<ref name=OCA/> By the [[grace]] of [[God]], he accomplished his [[missionary|mission]] with much zeal and great fruition, bringing into bosom of the Church a great number of the Jews of that area.<ref name=SYNAX/> He reposed peacefully in the year 552 AD, and his feast day is celebrated annually on [[December 19]].