The synod of Syracuse

Our canon credits Paul with two letters to Corinth - as said canon has preserved. The second one might be a collection of Greek letters, some not to Corinth proper; also these refer to a "Letter of Tears" which might exist buried in there but also might just be lost. Either way Paul cared a lot about Corinth. The long letter 1 Clement cared too; it is to Corinth. From "Rome". Where's Rome?

Technically Paul didn't write to Rome; he wrote to the Romans, and he did it in Greek. That implies that Paul wrote it to Roman citizens in Italy, generally - although some might have been in Rome. 1 Clement issues from "Romans" to Corinth; I ask: which Romans? I do not think that 1 Clement was aware of Luke and the letter certainly did not accept Acts, given its Pauline terminus in western Hispania (pace this guy). I see nothing special about The Civitas in 1 Clement. Its "Romans" sounds like a synod. Whence the bishops? Did episcopoi yet exist?

It happens that plenty of native Greek speakers still lived in Italy, but they lived in Magna Graeca - in south Italy. Among the largest and oldest Greek cities here was Syracuse. This actually would become a capital of the Roman Empire, under a "Constantine IV" remembered as Constans II. Syracuse was by origin the daughter-city of ... Corinth, as Carthage was of Tyre.

Clement bore a Latin name. I don't dispute Tradition that he sat a bishopric at the city Rome. But.

Paul pre-Vesuvius, and 1 Clement, inhabited a Hellenic world. Their Christendom was Greek and Mediterranean - Latin was the language of Empire, secondary to Greek at best and hostile at worst (UPDATE 9/24: it occurs to me that a Latin version does exist of 1 Clement as may be concurrent: e.g. it does not transliterate "presbyter" but calques "senior"). I propose that even as "Romans" such Christians were rare in Roma herself. Inasmuch as they assumed a relationship with Corinth, that could be done best from Syracuse.

So I doubt Clement for the primary "elder" who issued "1 Clement". The most-interested Western presbyter, for the wrangling of Corinth again, was the Syracusan presbyter (probably not Clement either). Although the Western Assembly en-banc perhaps already harboured Questions about which should take the lead; hence the vagary in authorship [UPDATE and hence so-early a Latin, extant].

HORIZONTAL RHETORIC 10/10 - One church to another...? Coming from "Rome", lowly Corinsians (whose city Rome had leveled) could hardly miss the point.