Pope Clement is considered an early Church Father because his writings are some of the earliest we have. He reigned as pope from 88 A.D. to 99 A.D. That's as an adult-meaning he could have known Jesus. For sure, he knew the Apostles.
He wrote the First Epistle of Clement around 96 AD to fix a big argument in the church at Corinth, which is one of the oldest surviving Christian writings outside the New Testament. Like church goers today, the early Christians were criticizing their local clergy. People don't like authority telling them things they don't want to hear--then and now.
1000 portrayal at Saint Sophia's Cathedral, Kyiv
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