Philosopher · Late antiquity · Algeria
Augustine of Hippo
354–430
Bishop of Hippo Regius. Author of the Confessions and The City of God. His doctrines of grace, original sin and the two cities shaped Western Christianity.
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- Born
- 13 November 354, Thagaste (now in Algeria).
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Augustine
- Died
- 28 August 430, Hippo Regius, during the Vandal siege.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Augustine
- Baptism
- By Ambrose of Milan, Easter 387.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Augustine
- Bishop
- Consecrated bishop of Hippo, about 396.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Saint Augustine
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Aurelius Augustinus was born at Thagaste in 354, taught rhetoric in Carthage, Rome and Milan, and was baptized by Ambrose in 387. Forced into ordination at Hippo in 391, he became bishop about 396.
The Confessions narrate conversion; how far the garden scene of 386 is history or crafted memory remains debated. The City of God answers the sack of Rome in 410 with the earthly city and the heavenly city. His later doctrine of grace hardened against Pelagius; he also came to accept imperial coercion against Donatists.
A philosopher page records the person and the texts. It is not a history of the late empire.
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