Peter Chrysologus

 

Peter was born in northeastern Italy. He was archbishop of Ravenna, capital of the Western empire, about 425. The empress heard his first sermon as bishop and he became a patron of building projects and church reforms. Many of his sermons  reveal good preparation, pastoral warmth and many details of Christian life in fifth-century Ravenna. Peter supported Pope Leo the Great’s teaching on the Incarnation and counseled Eutyches of Constantinople to accept Rome’s authority.

 

Peter was declared a doctor of the church in 1729. He died around A.D. 450, in his birthplace of Imola, in northern Italy.

 

Learning, in his view, was the greatest improvement to the human mind and the support of true religion.