Clement of Rome

Clement was bishop of the church at Rome in the last decades of the first century, remembered by early writers as a companion of Peter and Paul — possibly the Clement whom Paul greets in Philippians 4:3. Around AD 96 he wrote a long letter to the quarreling church in Corinth, urging them to restore their deposed presbyters and to imitate the humility of Christ. That letter, 1 Clement, is among the earliest Christian documents outside the New Testament and was so treasured that some churches read it in worship alongside Scripture.

His letter to Corinth was written while the apostle John was likely still alive.

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