[1] Between 1347 and 1348, Hugolino gave lectures on the Sentences of Peter Lombard, and was promoted to the position of Master of Theology in 1352.
[1] Later, in 1368, Hugolino was elected as prior general of the Augustinian Order, and later on in 1370, he was consecrated Bishop of Gallipoli.
A year later in 1371, Hugolino was appointed as the Latin Patriarch of Constantinople by Pope Gregory XI, and was made the administrator of the diocese of Rimini.
[1] Hugolino's thought was rooted strongly in that of St Augustine and his fellow Augustinian friar, Gregory of Rimini, and Hugolino viciously attacked the Aristotelianism that prevailed prior to the fourteenth century within the theological sphere, particularly with regards to Aristotelian ethics.
[2] He focused particularly on Augustine's notion of divine illumination, and maintained the necessity of God's grace in all the morally good acts that the human performs.