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**At Corinth, an impious and detestable division, as our saint called it, happened amongst the faithful, like that which St. Paul had appeased in the same church; and a party rebelled against holy and irreproachable priests and presumed to depose them. It seems to have been soon after the death of Domitian in 96, that St. Clement, in the name of the church of Rome, wrote to them his excellent epistle, a piece highly extolled and esteemed in the primitive church as an admirable work, as Eusebius calls it. It was placed in rank next to the canonical books of the holy scriptures, and with them read in the churches.**

Noting the division and wisdom of St. Clement to write to the church of Cortinth. These were facts I was not aware of.

I was a little bit familiar with St.Clement,thanks to some excellent tapes I had years ago by Steve Wood. I think the title of that album of tapes was: "The Apostolic Fathers" and among the tapes was one on Clement's letter to the Corinthians in which he corrected them strongly for trying to depose their leaders.