Saturday, August 10, 2024

Cyril C. Richardson on the Ecclesiology of 1 Clement

 

 

It has already been observed that Clement still uses the terms “presbyter” and “bishop” for the same class of persons, the church rulers, and we are not therefore to suppose that the monepiscopate has been fully established. The local church seems to be governed by a board of presbyter-bishops, though one of its numbers may have had special powers and privileges. (Cyril C. Richardson, Early Christian Fathers [New York: Collier Books, 1970], 39)

 

 

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