Portrait of Augustine of Hippo

Fathers

Augustine of Hippo

Bishop of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was bishop of Hippo in North Africa. He came to baptism in Milan under Ambrose, after years as a teacher of rhetoric and a hearer of the Manichees.

Dates
354–430
Role
Bishop of Hippo
See
North Africa

The Confessions tell that conversion. The City of God answers the sack of Rome. On the Trinity, the homilies on the Psalms and John, and the anti-Pelagian writings shaped Latin Christianity more than any other single father.

Writings