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  Clement of Rome - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
A.D. No claim is made by the Roman Church to interfere on any ground of superior rank; yet it is noteworthy that in the earliest document outside the canon which we can securely date, the church in the imperial city comes forward as a peacemaker to compose the troubles of a church in Greece.
Nothing is known of the cause of the discontent; no moral offence is charged against the presbyters, and their dismissal is regarded by Clement as high-handed and unjustifiable, and as a revolt of the younger members of the community against the elder.
Clement is exceedingly discursive, and his letter reaches twice the length of the Epistle to the Hebrews.
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 pope clement ii - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
All this was met with criticism from church reformers, although Clement's pontificate, starting with the Roman synod of 1047, initiated an improvement on the state of things in the Catholic church, particularly through enacting decrees against simony.
Clement died in October 1047, and was interred at Bamberg, which he had loved dearly.
Clement's tomb in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral is the only tomb of a pope north of the Alps.
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 Pope Clement II
In the autumn of 1046 the King of Germany, Henry III, crossed the Alps at the head of a large army and accompanied by a brilliant retinue of the secular and ecclesiastical princes of the empire, for the twofold purpose of receiving the imperial crown and of restoring order in the Italian Peninsula.
A dispute for precedence between the Sees of Ravenna, Milan, and Aquileia was settled in favour of Ravenna, the bishop of which was, in the absence of the emperor, to take his station at the pope's right.
Clement accompanied the emperor in a triumphal progress through Southern Italy and placed Benevento under an interdict for refusing to open its gates to them.
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/c/clement_ii,pope.html   (1187 words)

  
 20th WCP: Pythagorean Symbolism and the Philosophic Paideia in the Stromateis of Clement of Alexandria
Clement believes that the student should be directed and educated according to a certain model (partially found, as I shall argue, in the Pythagorean tradition).
Clement's attitude towards the material and ideas borrowed from his Jewish predecessor is very 'creative': normally, he appears to use several Philo's treatises simultaneously and always extends his interpretations beyond Philo's exegetical limits, offering at least one new simile with expressly Christian meaning.
Basic elements of Clement's theology reveal unmistakably that the influence of so-called Neopythagorean tradition penetrates throughout the whole structure of Clement's thought and certain elements of the peculiarly Pythagorean teaching are visible both in his practical and theoretical philosophy.
www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Anci/AnciAfon.htm   (5803 words)

  
 Pope Clement I - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Pope Clement I, the bishop of Rome also called Clement of Rome and Clemens Romanus, is considered to be the fourth pope, after Anacletus, according to the Roman Catholic tradition.
Liber Pontificalis believes that Clement of Rome had personally known Saint Peter, and states that he wrote two letters (the second letter, 2 Clement is no longer ascribed to Clement) and that he died in Greece in the third year of Trajan's reign, or 100.
Clement is also the hero of an early Christian romance or novel that has survived in at least two different versions, known as the Clementine literature, where he is identified with Domitian's cousin T. Flavius Clemens.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Clement_I   (432 words)

  
 Weaver
Clement Weaver, from whom were descended a large proportion al all the Weaver families found in New England and many of Those in New York and other states, came to America from Glastonbury, Somersetshire, England, where he was united in marriage May 19, 1617, to Rebecca Holbrook, dughter of William Holbrook of that same town.
It is possible that the Weavers may have settled temporarily in Portsmouth, as Clement II married a Portsmouth girl and owned land in that town in 1651.
Certain it is that both Clement I and II had lived in the jurisdiction of Newport long enough before 1655 to gain admission there as freeman, as their names both appear in the roll of freeman that year.
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 CLEMENT II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Clement II wasted no time in starting his reform campaign.
At Pesaro he was struck down by illness and on October 9, 1047, Clement II died.
Clement was an able and holy pope, but his pontificate had been too brief to allow him to do more than make a good start toward reform.
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 Pope Clement II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
All this was met with criticism from church reformers, although Clement II's short pontificate, starting with the Roman synod of 1047, initiated an improvement on the state of things in the Catholic church, particularly through enacting decrees against simony.
Clement II died in October 1047, and was interred at Bamberg, which he had loved dearly.
Clement II's tomb in the western choir of the Bamberg Cathedral is the only tomb of a Pope north of the Alps.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pope_Clement_II   (269 words)

  
 Catholic Culture : Document Library : Popes Through the Ages
Clement has been identified with the Clement mentioned by St. Paul in his Epistle to the Philippians; but that Clement seems to have been a Philippian.
Modern scholars think that St. Clement was a freedman or the son of a freedman of the imperial household.
Clement was exiled by the Emperor Trajan to the Chersonese, modern Crimea.
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 2 Clement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Although known as 2 Clement, this document is in actuality an anonymous homily of the mid-second century.
An early Christian epistle transmitted along with 1 Clement in the biblical Codex Alexandrinus (late 4th century) and the later Jerusalem Codex (1056) which includes the Didache, as well as in the Syriac version.
It was not written by the author(s) of 1 Clement and, indeed, it is not a letter but a sermon on self-control, repentance, and judgment.
www.earlychristianwritings.com /2clement.html   (543 words)

  
 Freed Hardeman Preacher's Forum Bill Swetmon and Clement of Alexandria
Clement was aware that complicated harmonies came from the same source as the musical instruments and had the same effect.
Clement shows that he is contrasting the pagan festivals with the practices of Christians by showing that Christians did not use the instruments of warfare.
Clement was aware that many of the Greeks came after Moses but believed that their system was superior to all others.
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 Clement of Rome
Clement is a little more than this, chiefly because he wrote a letter to the Corinthians, which was highly valued by the early church, and has been preserved to the present day.
The Epistle of Clement to the Corinthians (also called I Clement) can be found in collections of the writings of the Apostolic Fathers, such as the Penguin Paperback Early Christian Writings, translated by Maxwell Staniforth.
Clement writes to tell them that they have behaved badly, and to remind them of the importance of Christian unity and love.
www.satucket.com /lectionary/Clement_Rome.htm   (1385 words)

  
 Ante-Nicene Fathers, Vol II: CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA: Elucidations
Clement expounds the true meaning of Christ’s words, perverted by those who abstained from marriage not in honour of encraty, but as an insane impeachment of the divine wisdom in the material creation.
Ingenious is Clement’s exposition of that saying of our Lord, “Where two or three are met together in my name,” etc. He explodes a monstrous exposition of the text, and ingeniously applies it to the Christian family.
Clement refutes a false argument from Christ’s hyperbole of hatred to wife and children and family ties, and also gives lucid explanations of passages from Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezra, which had been wrested to heretical abuse.
www.sacred-texts.com /chr/ecf/002/0020350.htm   (2432 words)

  
 weaver - pafn125 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Sergeant Clement Weaver [II]^ (41) was born between 1617 and 1625.(42) Lucius Weaver notes: He "was born in Glastonbury, England, between 1617 and 1625.
[II], is in the will of his grandfather Holbrook Dec. 11, 1625, wherein provision was made that he and his cousins, Thomas Holbrook, Jr., and Edmund Tyly should have 'my ground att ye moore geate together wth ye leases and conveyances thereof'....
"Clement Weaver [II] and John Weaver [his son?] were among the fifty persons to whom the township of East Greenwich was granted Oct. 31, 1677.
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 The Ecole Glossary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Born into a wealthy Roman family, Paolo Scolari was cardinal bishop of Præneste when he was elected pope in 1187.
Clement returned the papacy to Rome; his predecessors had been in exile for 16 years because of communards.
Clement died in 1191, the year the crusade ended.
www2.evansville.edu /ecoleweb/glossary/clementiii.html   (113 words)

  
 Early Church Fathers And The Foundations Of Dispensationalism
Clement of Rome is usually claimed as an early proponent of premillennialism (chiliasm).
With reference to the I Clement XXXIII passage, Gundry notes that it is preceded by an “illustration of a tree budding and putting forth leaves and fruit which finally ripens—an illustration which hardly conveys imminence.”[22]Clement’s source for this illustration is unknown.
Aside from the fact that Clement believed in the imminent return of the Lord and evidently in a millennial kingdom to follow, it is difficult to piece together any substantial outline of his eschatological expectations.
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 Medieval Religion and the Church
The council reformed Pope Nicholas II's decree on papal elections by adding the requirement that a two-thirds majority of the cardinals was required to elect.
The Emperor Frederick II was deposed from all his offices.
In 450, just after the death of the Emperor Theodosius II (a supporter of the monophysites), the Orthodox Emperor Marcian (450-57) came to the throne.
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 A guide to popes through the ages who, like Cardinal Ratzinger, have taken the name Benedict. -- Beliefnet.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Emperor Henry III intervened and Clement II was made pope.
After Clement's death, Benedict again seized the throne, but was forced out by Clement's successor, Damasus II.
Nicholas II excommunicated Benedict X and forced him to flee to the castle of Gerard of Galeria.
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 The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - Guide to documents and events (76-2005)
To place an unsurmountable barrier to the ambition of the counts of Tusculum, Clement II renewed in favor of Henry III the privilege given to Charlemagne of confirming the election of the supreme pontiffs.
Enthroned on December 25, 1046, Clement crowned Henry and his queen Agnes as emperor and empress on the same day.
Henry then had himself invested with the rank of patrician which empowered him to take the lead in the appointment of a pope, and the Romans had to undertake afresh not to elect a pope in future without the approval of emperor and patrician.
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 St. Pachomius Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
In return, Clement, who named himself after Clement I, crowned Henry Holy Roman Emperor.
Clement called a synod in 1047 to condemn simony and to establish a penance for being knowingly ordained by a simoniac bishop.
Clement travelled extensively with Henry during his ten-month papacy and died, probably of lead poisoning, at the monastery of St. Thomas near Pesaro.
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 Pope John Paul II--The "unofficial page"---Documents of the Roman Catholic Church
John Paul II (1920-) is said to be the most recognized person in the world.
John Paul II, Apostolic Palace, Vatican City State, Europe...
Hilarius,St. Simplicius,St. Felix III (II),St. Gelasius I,Anastasius II, St.
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 Booman Tribune ~ A Progressive Community
I was hoping he'd name himself after his two favorite popes and become Pope John Paul John Paul II I. In former days, we'd both agree That you were me, and I was you.
The peace and wonderment which she trustfully proposes to men and women today are the peace and wonderment of the garden of the resurrection, which have enlightened our world and its history with the revelation that "God is love" (1 Jn 4:8,16).
The Sovereign Pontiff John Paul II, in the Audience granted to the undersigned Cardinal Prefect, approved the present Letter, adopted in the Ordinary Session of this Congregation, and ordered its publication.
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 THE PAPACY
, ii., 11) held that the whole scene was pre-arranged by the Apostles, so as to settle the question decidedly.
Many of the documents of early Church history were destroyed during the pagan persecutions of the first three centuries, but ample records remain to show that the Bishops of Rome exercised the supreme power of teaching, ruling and judging.
Before St. John died, Pope Clement of Rome (90-99) of his own accord wrote to the Christians of Corinth, urging concord and submission to their ecclesiastical superiors.
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 Pope Clement II   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Pope Clement II This is a beta version of NNDB
Clement II, given name Suidger, became pope on the 25th of December 1046.
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 Clement of Rome, Bishop   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Clement is counted as the third bishop of Rome (after the apostles).
The letter is commonly dated around 96 Ad, but recently an earlier date has been suggested.
The Biographical Sketches home page has more information.
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 Apostolic Fathers: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Didache, Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, The Martyrdom ...
Apostolic Fathers: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Didache, Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, The Martyrdom of Polycarp, The Epistle of Dio
Apostolic Fathers: I Clement, II Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Didache, Barnabas, The Shepherd of Hermas, The Martyrdom of Polycarp, The Epistle of Dio
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 CHURCH FATHERS: The Stromata, Book II (St. Clement of Alexandria)
As Scripture has called the Greeks pilferers of the Barbarian philosophy, it will next have to be considered how this may be briefly demonstrated.
For the power that appeared in the vision to Hermas said, "Whatever may be revealed to you, shall be revealed."
We must, however, not rest satisfied with these, but endeavour as we best can to adduce the doctrines laid down on the point by the natur
www.newadvent.org /fathers/02102.htm   (16996 words)

  
 Clement of Alexandria   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Roberts-Donaldson English Translation: Who is the Rich Man that Shall Be Saved?
Butterworth, Clement of Alexandria: Exhortation to the Greeks; Rich Man's Salvation; To the Newly Baptized (Harvard University Press, 1919).
Clement of Alexandria wrote in the late second century.
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