Word: valentinian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Both later accepted. Ambrose, at 35, had not been baptized when he was sent in 374 by the Roman Emperor Valentinian to address an assembly of Christians gathered at Milan to elect a bishop. His speech impressed the meeting. A child cried out: "Ambrose-bishop," and the meeting elected him by acclamation. Gregory (not to be confused with 16 Popes of that name) first refused, then accepted, the bishopric of Sasima. Later he took over his father's duties as Bishop of Nazianzus in Asia Minor, but he never accepted formal installation in that see. In 1808 the Pope...