Chapter XV

Chapter XV.—Clement, the Third Bishop of Rome.

In the twelfth year of the same reign Clement succeeded Anencletus ⁷⁰⁴ after the latter had been bishop of the church of Rome for twelve years. The apostle in his Epistle to the Philippians informs us that this Clement was his fellow-worker. His words are as follows: ⁷⁰⁵ “With Clement and the rest of my fellow-laborers whose names are in the book of life.”

Footnotes

147:704

On Anencletus, see chap. 13, note 3.

147:705

Phil. iv. 3. For an account of Clement, see above, chap. 4, note 19; and upon the order of succession of the Roman bishops, see chap. 2, note 1.