Biographical dossier

Pope Clement I

Pope Clement I is classified in the historical people index as RELIGIOUS FIGURE. This dossier preserves the indexed life dates and geographic anchors while explicitly marking what the source does not supply.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:person:person:wd:Q42887
Catalogue ID
person:wd:Q42887
Wikidata ID
Q42887
Occupation class
RELIGIOUS FIGURE
Life span
AD 40–AD 99
Birth anchor
Rome (AD 40)
Death anchor
Chersonesus (AD 99)
HPI
81.66558877382312

Chronological record

The dataset places the life between AD 40 and AD 99. These indexed dates are identity and chronology fields, not a substitute for a critical biography.

Geographic anchors

Birth: Rome (AD 40). Death: Chersonesus (AD 99).

Country keys are dataset keys and must not be mistaken for the historical boundaries that existed during the person’s lifetime.

Historical role

The source assigns the broad occupation class RELIGIOUS FIGURE. It does not by itself establish doctrine, sanctity, political legitimacy, responsibility for every event associated with the person, or the exact scope of an office.

Source and identity method

Source: PANTHEON_2_2020. Identity method: pantheon_wikidata_qid. Language-edition measure: 10.39811329135622.

Research questions

  1. Which primary sources are contemporary with this person?
  2. Which office, community or institution gives the person historical agency?
  3. How do later confessional, national or ideological narratives reshape the record?
  4. Which places on the atlas are genuine life anchors and which are later reception sites?
Phase II — source-led historical deepening

Historical horizon

Clement of Rome belongs to the earliest post-apostolic witness to Roman ecclesial intervention and ministry. The profile centres on 1 Clement, its Corinthian setting and the distinction between early testimony and later martyrdom traditions.

Primary-source path

  • First Letter of Clement
  • Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History
  • Irenaeus, Against Heresies 3.3.3
  • Later Clementine and martyrdom traditions, critically distinguished

Geography and institutions

Birth anchor: Rome; Death anchor: Chersonesus The map anchors support navigation, but no point is treated as the whole extent of a ministry, kingdom, journey or later cult.

Connected study paths

This layer expands the catalogue entry without turning later reception into contemporary evidence. Confessional judgements, historical claims and uncertain traditions remain explicitly distinguishable.