Who was Augustine of Hippo?

Augustine of Hippo was a Romanized Berber philosopher and theologian. He was born in 354 in Thagaste. His parents were Monica and Patricius. Thagaste was provincial Roman city in North Africa. He started at a school at Madaurus. At this school he learned Latin literature and pagan beliefs and practices. When he was 17 he studied at Carthage and learned rhetoric. In 383 he started a school in Rome to teach rhetoric, but this did not last long because when the students had to pay they just left. When Augustine was thirty he won the most visible academic chair of the Latin world. Augustine became Manichean in Carthage but when he moved to Milan he converted into Christianity. When he returned to North Africa in 388 he was ordained and became the bishop of Hippo. He wrote books that had influences on the doctrine of the church. One book he wrote was called the Confessions. This book was a penitential autobiography. Then Augustine died in 430.

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