{"slug": "ambrose", "label": "Ambrose", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43689", "qid": "Q43689", "description": "Roman theologian and Bishop of Milan (c. 340–397)", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [339, 1298], "span_label": ["339 CE", "1298 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-catholic-archdiocese-of-milan", "label": "Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Milan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "april", "label": "April", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thessaloniki", "label": "Thessaloniki", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "late-roman-army", "label": "Late Roman army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theodosius-i", "label": "Theodosius I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "macedonia-roman-province", "label": "Macedonia (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyricum-roman-province", "label": "Illyricum (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "donatism", "label": "Donatism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 339, "year_label": "339 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Aurelius Ambrosius, Italian bishop and theologian (d. 397)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355371026#Births", "title": "339", "revid": 1355371026, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 340, "year_label": "340 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Aurelius Ambrose, bishop of Milan (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281359942#Births", "title": "340", "revid": 1281359942, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 374, "year_label": "374 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – The people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop. He is the second son of the former praetorian prefect of Gaul, and becomes a creative thinker whose ideas will provide the paradigm for medieval church-state relations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288884897#Religion", "title": "374", "revid": 1288884897, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 375, "year_label": "375 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Gratian, advised by his chief advisor Ambrosius, begins a systematic persecution of the pagans. He confiscates the fortunes of the temples and adds the money to the Imperial Treasury. He proscribes Arianism and Donatism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205031#Roman_Empire", "title": "375", "revid": 1349205031, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 381, "year_label": "381 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Council of Aquileia: Ambrose and the council depose the Arian bishops Palladius of Ratiaria and Secundianus of Singidunum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1281451732#Religion", "title": "381", "revid": 1281451732, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 384, "year_label": "384 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ambrosius refuses the request of Empress Justina for a church in Milan, where she can worship according to her Arian belief.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364741473#Religion", "title": "384", "revid": 1364741473, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 390, "year_label": "390 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April", "text": "April – Massacre of Thessalonica: Resentment among the citizens of Thessalonica (Macedonia) breaks out into violence after the arrest of a popular charioteer. Butheric, military commander of Illyricum, is murdered. Emperor Theodosius I orders vengeance, despite the pleas for mercy by Ambrose, bishop of Milan; more than 7,000 inhabitants are massacred by the Roman army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355430318#Roman_Empire", "title": "390", "revid": 1355430318, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 391, "year_label": "391 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Quintus Aurelius Symmachus, urban prefect of Rome, pleads for traditional cult practices. He petitions Theodosius I to re-open the pagan temples, but is opposed by Ambrose.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327980191#Roman_Empire", "title": "391", "revid": 1327980191, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Aurelius Ambrosius, bishop of Milan", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Deaths", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 4", "text": "April 4 – Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, dies in his diocese after 23 years in office, during which he dominated the political life of the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Religion", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1298, "year_label": "1298 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071319#Religion", "title": "1298", "revid": 1363071319, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}]}