A presbyter and bishop in Rome who wrote a letter to the church at Corinth. The letter was written around AD 96. This letter is probably the earliest Christian writing outside the New Testament. Dionysius of Corinth, who was bishop around AD 170, was the first to identify Clement as the author of that letter. Origen, a theologian who lived in Alexandria, and Eusebius, the first church historian, identified the writer as the Clement listed in the Shepherd of Hermas. The Shepherd of Hermas is a Christian writing from the mid-second century.
Clement of Rome
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