Ambrose (340-97)

Major works

•          De officiis ministrorum (Christian ethics for clergy)

•          Thirty-five treatises and ninety-one letters

Importance:

•          One of the Doctors of the church

•          A foe of Arianism

•          Had a large influence on Augustine whom he baptized and instructed

•          Taught Augustine that it was legitimate to allegorize the Old Testament