“The Complete Collection of the Works of the Holy Fathers of the Church and Church Writers” opens with two volumes of the Works of St. Gregory the Theologian. The first volume included the famous 45 Words of the saint, which created his unfading fame not only as a famous ascetic of the Orthodox Church, but also as a great theologian, renowned church writer and brilliant speaker. These works represent the best that St. created. Gregory in the field of church theology. They reflected all the power of the saint’s talent. Written on various occasions and at different periods of the life of St. Gregory, they reveal to our spiritual gaze the sublime beauty of theological speculation, the talent of a polemicist and defender of church teaching from heretics, an observant everyday writer who gives important historical information about his era, events and persons of his time. The oratorical talent of St. Gregory, manifested in the Words. Soon after his holy death, Saint Gregory was called the “Christian Demosthenes” in honor of the famous and unsurpassed ancient orator. Many of the 45 Words presented were spoken by St. Gregory as church sermons and with their amazing power influenced the hearts and minds of listeners. An exceptional role was played by the famous 5 Words on Theology, which largely reversed the fate of the confrontation between the Arians and the Orthodox in Constantinople in 380 and served as fertile ground for the convening of the Second Ecumenical Council in 381. The appendix contains one of the best domestic studies of the life and teachings of St. Gregory - book of St. N. Vinogradov “Dogmatic teaching of St. Gregory the Theologian”, as well as an index of quotations from the Holy Scriptures. {1}The second volume of the Works of St. Gregory the Theologian included epistles, poems and letters. Attached is a brilliant monograph by A. Govorov “St. Gregory the Theologian as a Christian poet", a commentary index, a dictionary of names and concepts of ancient culture. This publication will make an excellent start to the home collection and study of the best heritage from the treasury of the Holy Tradition of the Church. * * *With the blessing of His Holiness Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' ALEXIY II.Under by the general editors of Metropolitan VLADIMIR of Tashkent and Central Asia. Project leader Professor, Doctor of Church History A. I. SIDOROV