other · 212 · Antioch
Alexander of Jerusalem wrote to the Antiochenes on the election of Asclepiades and sent the letter by hand. The sentence Eusebius preserves is a character reference: I have sent this letter to you by Clement, the blessed presbyter, a man virtuous and approved, whom ye yourselves also know and will recognize. He is by now an old man who has left Alexandria, and this is the last thing anyone records him doing — an errand for somebody else, which is a truer picture of how these churches stayed in touch with each other than any amount of theology. He is a participant and not a legate: the role that renders as papal legate belongs to popes sending men to councils, and Clement was carrying a bishop's letter, not a pope's commission.
To carry a letter from the bishop of Jerusalem to the church at Antioch, congratulating them on their new bishop.
The last notice of him alive, and a glimpse of what a presbyter of standing was actually for.