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What is the Apostolic Constitutions and its connection to St. Clement I?

The Ordinances of the Holy Apostles Through Clement, or Apostolic Constitutions, was reputedly drafted by the Apostles and is the largest collection of early Christian ecclesiastical law. The constitutions were believed to have been transmitted by St. Clement I (the fourth pope, who reigned from 88 to 97 or from 92 to 101), but they are now thought to have been written in Syria about 380.