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There he befriended Pantaenus, the head of the Catechetical School of Alexandria. Clement converted and would eventually succeed Pantaenus as head of the school around 190 AD. Alexandria was a natural environment for Clement: as a major trade port it attracted all kinds of thinkers (including Neo-Platonists, Jews, and Christians) and a liberal atmosphere.
This hypothesis agrees with the probable date of Clement's headship; and likewise with the note in the Chronicon of Eusebius, under year of Pertinax, or 2nd of Severus (c. 193), where we read that Clement was then in Alexandria, "a most excellent teacher (didaskaloV) and shining light (dielampe) of Christian philosophy," and Pantaenus "was distinguished as an expositor of the Word of God."
Alexandria, studying under Pantaenus, a Christian teacher who ran a Christian catechetical school. After the death of Pantaenus, Clement took over the running of the school. He left Alexandria around 202/203 CE, before the pogrom that we will describe, and moved to Palestine, where he worked until his death around 215 CE
[14] [15] [note 1] [17] Clement studied under Pantaenus, and was ordained to the priesthood by Pope Julian before 189. Otherwise, virtually nothing is known of Clement's personal life in Alexandria. He may have been married, a conjecture supported by his writings. [18] During the Severian persecution of 202–203, Clement left Alexandria.
The favourite teacher is probably Pantaenus, head of the Christian School in Alexandria. According to Eusebius, Pantaenus was a prominent thinker in Alexandria during the reign of Commodus (180–93 ce) having received a Stoic philosophical education. Allegedly Clement succeeded Pantaenus at the Catechetical School, although it remains unclear ...
Clement was born probably of pagan parents about the middle of the second century and died probably before 215. He sat at the feet of a succession of Christian teachers, of whom the last was the Alexandrian Pantaenus, a Stoic philosopher converted to Christianity (according to the report of Eusebius).
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Jul 15, 2024 · After studying under Pantaenus, Clement himself became a teacher at the school, as well as an ordained priest. Eventually, he took over as head of the school. By the way, Clement never says whether he was married, but his positive view of marriage and childbearing, in opposition to the asceticism advocated by many Christian teachers of his time, may indicate that he was.
