He was the Bishop of Milan and became one of the most important theological figure of the 4th century. Ambrose was born around 340 AD to a Roman Christian family. He is best known as a lifelong friend of Cardinal John Henry Newman. St. Ambrose was founded as a seminary and school of commerce for young men in 1882, known as St. Ambrose Academy. He was the Bishop of Milan and became one of the most important theological figure of the 4th century.

His father is sometimes identified with Aurelius Ambrosius, a praetorian prefect of Gaul; but some scholars identify his father as an official named Uranius who received an imperial constitution dated 3 February 339 (addressed in a brief extract from one of the three emperors ruling in 339, Constantine II, Constantius II, or Constans, in the Codex Theodosianus, book XI.5).

He was a classical scholar and a linguist both in Oriental and European tongues. The affiliation remains strong today. It owes its beginning to the first bishop of Davenport, The Most Reverend John McMullen, DD, who founded it under the auspices of the Diocese of Davenport. Ambrose was born into a Roman Christian family about 340 and was raised in Gallia Belgica, the capital of which was Augusta Treverorum. St. Ambrose. Saint Ambrose, also known as Aurelius Ambrosius, is one of the four original doctors of the Church. Ambrose St. John (1815 – 24 May 1875) was a convert to Catholicism and an English Oratorian. Ambrose was born around 340 AD to a Roman Christian family. He was one of the most illustrious Fathers and Doctors of the Church, and fitly chosen, together with St. Augustine, St. John Chrysostom, and St. Athanasius, to uphold the venerable Chair of the Prince of the Apostles in the tribune of St. Peter's at Rome. It was founded in 1946 by Dr Joseph Robertson. He was the outstanding leader, preacher, and author in the Western part of the Christian Church during the 4th century. St Ambrose College is a Christian Brothers ' Roman Catholic boys' grammar school in Hale Barns, Altrincham, Greater Manchester, England. He emerges as the man of action who cut a furrow through the lives of his contemporaries. Saint Ambrose’s Story One of Ambrose’s biographers observed that at the Last Judgment, people would still be divided between those who admired Ambrose and those who heartily disliked him. Saint Ambrose, also known as Aurelius Ambrosius, is one of the four original doctors of the Church. St. Ambrose (339-397) was the bishop of the Italian city of Milan. St. Ambrose, Latin Ambrosius, (born 339 ce, Augusta Treverorum, Belgica, Gaul [now Trier, Germany]—died 397, Milan [Italy]; feast day December 7), bishop of Milan, biblical critic, and initiator of ideas that provided a model for medieval conceptions of church–state relations. In 2012 the school became an academy, and was completely re-built.