Person
Clement of Alexandria
c. 150-c. 215
teacher, theologian
Attested. Attested; birthplace is tradition.
Titus Flavius Clemens taught advanced Christian students in Alexandria and wrote the Protrepticus, Paedagogus, and Stromateis. He treats Greek philosophy as a preparation that can serve faith. He left the city during the Severan crackdown early in the third century. The later legend that he headed an official catechetical school with a fixed succession is too neat.
Converted philosopher who succeeded Pantaenus at Alexandria and presented Christianity as the true philosophy. He left during the persecution of 202 and spent his last years with his former pupil Alexander in Cappadocia.
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- Athens · probable birthplace (Epiphanius) · c. 150 · tradition
- alexandria · teacher at the catechetical school · c. 180-202 · attested
- Caesarea in Cappadocia (Kayseri) · refuge with Bishop Alexander (later of Jerusalem) · c. 202-215 · attested
Library: Catechetical School of Alexandria
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