Feast of St. Ambrose

The bishop who invented congregational singing and stood up to an emperor.

The Feast of St. Ambrose on December 7 celebrates one of the four original Doctors of the Latin Church, Bishop of Milan from 374 to 397 CE. Ambrose introduced congregational hymn singing to Western Christianity, wrote some of its earliest hymns, confronted Emperor Theodosius I over a massacre, and b