Clement the Bishop

Clement, of whom the apostle Paul writes to the Philippians, “With Clement and the rest of my fellow workers, whose names are written in the book of life,” was the fourth bishop of Rome after Peter, if indeed the second was Linus and the third Anacletus; though most of the Latins think that Clement came second after the apostle. On behalf of the church of Rome he wrote an especially valuable letter to the church of the Corinthians, which is read publicly in some places. It seems to me to agree in style with the letter to the Hebrews which passes under Paul’s name. But it differs from that letter in many of its ideas and also in the order of its words, and the likeness in either respect is not very great. There is also a second letter under his name, which is rejected by earlier writers, and a long Disputation between Peter and Apion, which Eusebius rejects in the third book of his Church History. He died in the third year of Trajan, and a church built at Rome preserves the memory of his name to this day. [a]