Clement of Philippi

When was Clement active?

Clement of Philippi is dated fl. c. 62 (death unrecorded) in the archive, which places Clement in the Apostolic Age (AD 4–70). The dating is traditional and approximate; the archive marks it as uncertain rather than fixing a year the sources do not give.

Which early sources mention Clement?

Clement of Philippi is named in 3 primary-source passages catalogued here, drawn from Paul, Origen of Alexandria and Eusebius of Caesarea. Every passage is quoted from a named public-domain translation, earliest first.

Where was Clement from?

The archive associates Clement of Philippi with Philippi.

Who were Clement’s contemporaries?

The archive links Clement of Philippi to 3 other figures, including Euodia of Philippi, Syntyche of Philippi and Clement of Rome. Each connection is drawn from a source that places them together, not from inference.

…with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

[Origen takes the Clement whom Paul greets at Philippi to be the same man who later wrote to Corinth from Rome — the earliest identification of the two.]

Origen's Commentary on the Gospel of John, begun at Alexandria c. AD 226 and continued at Caesarea; nine of the original thirty-two books survive. Greek: Erwin Preuschen, Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller 10 (1903). English translation of books I–X by Allan Menzies, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 10 (1896), public domain; the whole in Ronald Heine, Fathers of the Church 80 and 89 (1989–93).

Clement moreover, who was appointed third bishop of the church at Rome, was, as Paul testifies, his co-laborer and fellow-soldier.