Ambrose Corbie


Ambrose Corbie, also called Corby or Corbington was an English Jesuit, teacher and author.

Biography

Ambrose Corbie was born near County Durham, England, the fourth son of Gerald Corbie and his wife, Isabella, recusant/exiled Roman Catholics. Of their children, sons Ambrose, Ralph and Robert, became Jesuit priests and their two surviving daughters, Mary and Catherine, became Benedictine nuns in Brussels.
Gerald Corbie entered the Society of Jesus as a lay brother in 1628, having reconciled his own father Ralph to the Church. Gerald Corbie died in Watten, Nord on 17 September 1637. Isabella Corbie was professed a Benedictine at Ghent and died a centenarian on 25 December 1652.
Ambrose, aged 12, entered St-Omer and, in 1622, the Venerable English College in Rome. He entered the Society of Jesus in Watten in 1627, and in 1641 was professed. Having taught with some success for some years at St-Omers, and been minister at Ghent in 1645, he was appointed confessor at the English college, Rome, where he died, aged 44.

Writings

His works include: