On the Duties of the Clergy

Saint Ambrose of Milan's early Christian guide to moral conduct, reworking the classical ideal of duty into a pastoral handbook for those who serve the Church.

At a glance A fourth-century bishop takes the pagan world's most famous treatise on duty and turns… What it's about On the Duties of the Clergy (De Officiis Ministrorum) is Saint Ambrose's… Following the classical scheme, it treats the honourable and the useful, and the… The result is at once a work of ethics and a manual of pastoral formation, addressing…

On the Duties of the Clergy (De Officiis Ministrorum) is Saint Ambrose's adaptation of Cicero's De Officiis, written for the clergy under his care in Milan.