CLEMENT, Saint. — Byzantine hymnographer, who lived in the 9th century. It seems certain that he was a monk of the Stoudion and not of Grottaferrata, as G. Sciommarì believed (Vita s. Bartholomaei, Rome 1728, p. 120).
He composed several canons, i.e., rhythmic hymns of a type introduced a century earlier by St Andrew of Crete. Nine of these have been published. Ten other similar compositions, preserved unpublished in the library of the abbey of Grottaferrata, are also attributed to him. It is probable that the study of the countless liturgical manuscripts buried in libraries will considerably lengthen the list of canons by Clement. He was exiled for defending orthodoxy in the iconoclastic controversies. He is currently celebrated by the Greek Church on 30 April.