# Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office

Date: 391

## The fact

In 391 the church at [Hippo](/people/augustine-of-hippo) ordained Augustine priest. Later lives say he was seized for the office. The instrument is that pastoral ordination, which put preaching and care of a mixed port congregation on him before the bishopric. It is not a modern hospital charter. Augustine of Hippo's documented role is: Valerius and the congregation pressed ordination as Possidius and Confessions-neighbour files tell it. Preaching and care of the sick-poor follow. Medium on unique clinic coefficients.

## Context

Valerius is the named bishop who wanted a preacher. Sharing the congregation with unnamed sick and poor is required. The 395 bishop-office is the coercive-era chair stored as cost. Alms sermons are the speech-neighbour. Cassiciacum is the philosophical neighbour. The setting of Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office is the public file around 0391-01-01. Shared offices, unnamed crews, printers, or later editors may appear without becoming this instrument. Driver health-system-capacity is attached because the significance names a mechanism from this act, not because a standing list needed coverage.

## Evidence and sources

Official locator: Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Augustine, ordination at Hippo at https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm (New Advent / Catholic Encyclopedia). Independent locator: Britannica — Saint Augustine, priesthood at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine (Encyclopaedia Britannica). Official carrier: Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Augustine, ordination at Hippo (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm; New Advent / Catholic Encyclopedia). Independent carrier: Britannica — Saint Augustine, priesthood (https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine; Encyclopaedia Britannica).

Official or archival record: Catholic Encyclopedia — St. Augustine, ordination at Hippo (https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm; New Advent / Catholic Encyclopedia).

## Significance

Improving path from Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office on 0391-01-01. A pastoral ordination that includes care of a port congregation is a health-and-care path of medium-low weight when sermons and sick-visits are the mechanism. The welfare reading on this path is improving.

If a number is not in the two records named above, it is not supplied here.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a sourced public record of Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office under 0391-01-01 for Augustine of Hippo. Established: a sourced public record of Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office under 0391-01-01.

Confidence is stated on the impact path, not hidden in adjectives. Do not twin with 395 episcopacy as a second identical office. Priest then bishop. Sick-care sermons sit nearby. Mixed effects of Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office are separate paths.

Later competitions, monuments, translations, UNESCO listings, museums, and adaptations are not converted into extra lifetime acts.

The attached driver is health-system-capacity. The welfare reading used in this dossier is improving. That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Shared responsibility is part of Augustine is ordained priest at Hippo in 391, against his preference as later told, as a pastoral office. Naming Augustine of Hippo does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 0391-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.

## People

- Augustine Of Hippo: https://factrail.ai/people/augustine-of-hippo

## Drivers

- Health-System Capacity: https://factrail.ai/drivers/health-system-capacity

## Sources

- https://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02084a.htm
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Augustine

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/au-ordination-391