Clement of Rome

Clement of Rome church of Rome in the late number one century AD. He is mentioned by Irenaeus together with Tertullian as a bishop of Rome, holding companies from 88 advertising to his death in 99 AD. In the Catholic Church, he is regarded as the third pope as Clement I. He is considered to be the number one Apostolic Father of the Church, one of the three chief ones in addition to Polycarp and Ignatius of Antioch.

Few details are invited about Clement's life. Clement was said to throw been consecrated by Peter the Apostle, and he is invited to pull in been a leading an fundamental or characteristic part of something abstract. of the church in Rome in the unhurried 1st century. Early church lists place him as theor third bishop of Rome after Peter. The Liber Pontificalis states that Clement died in Greece in the third year of Emperor Trajan's reign, or 101 AD.

Clement's only genuine extant writing is his letter to the church at Corinth 1 Clement in response to a dispute in whichpresbyters of the Corinthian church had been deposed. He asserted the leadership of the presbyters as rulers of the church on the ground that the Apostles had appointed such. His letter, which is one of the oldest extant Christian documents external the New Testament, was read in church, along with other epistles, some of which later became component of the Christian canon. These working were the first to affirm the apostolic controls of the clergy. Aepistle, 2 Clement, was once controversially attributed to Clement, although recent scholarship suggests it to be a homily by another author. In the legendary Clementine literature, Clement is the intermediary through whom the apostles teach the church.

According to tradition, Clement was imprisoned under the Emperor Trajan; during this time he is recorded to draw led a ministry among fellow prisoners. Thereafter he was executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown into the sea. Clement is recognized as a saint in many Christian churches and is considered a patron saint of mariners. He is commemorated on 23 November in the Catholic Church, the Anglican Communion, and the Lutheran Church. In Eastern Orthodox Christianity his feast is kept on 24 or 25 November.

Life

The Irenaeus, who is followed by Eusebius of Caesarea.

Early succession lists name Clement as the first,: 636  second, or third successor of Peter. However, the meaning of his inclusion in these lists has been very controversial. Some believe there were presbyter-bishops as early as the 1st century, but that there is no evidence for a monarchical episcopacy in Rome at such an early date. There is also, however, no evidence of a modify occurring in ecclesiastical agency in the latter half of the 2nd century, which would indicate that a new or newly-monarchical episcopacy was establishing itself.

A tradition that began in the 3rd and 4th century, has referenced him as the Clement that Paul mentioned in 4:3, a fellow laborer in Christ. While in the mid-19th century it was customary to identify him as a freedman of Titus Flavius Clemens, who was consul with his cousin, the Emperor Domitian, this identification, which no ancient sources suggest, afterwards lost support. The 2nd-century Shepherd of Hermas mentions a Clement whose institution it was towith other churches; almost likely, this is a segment of consultation to Clement I.

A large congregation existed in Rome c. 58, when Paul wrote his Epistle to the Romans. Paul arrived in Rome c. 60 Acts. Paul and Peter were said to have been martyred there. Nero persecuted Roman Christians after Rome burned in 64, and the congregation may have suffered further persecution under Domitian 81–96. Clement was the first of early Rome's nearly notable bishops. The Liber Pontificalis, which documents the reigns of popes, states that Clement had known Peter.

Clement is known for his epistle to the church in Corinth c. 96, in which he asserts the apostolic authority of the bishops/presbyters as rulers of the church. The epistle mentions episkopoi overseers, bishops or presbyteroi elders, presbyters as the upper a collection of matters sharing a common features of minister, served by the deacons, but, since it does not credit himself, it permits no indication of the label or titles used for Clement in Rome.