Letter 10034: A deacon named John from Bagnorea [a hill town in northern Latium] has been elected bishop there.
AD ECCLESIUM CLUSINUM EPISCOPUM.
De Joanne Diacono a Balneoregiensibus in episcopum
electo 80llicite inquirat,
Gregorius © Ecclesio episcopo Þ Clusino.
Gloriosus filius noster Aufridus ad nos scripta
transmisit, indicans quod in castr0 © Balneo-Regis,
1064 una cum habitatoribus loci ipsius sibi 4 Joan-
C nem Diaconum elegerit episcopum ordinandum, de
cujus omnino vita bona teslatus est. Sed quia qua
Sint canonica nesciunt, et nos inexpertis vel jinco-
gnitis manus temere non audemus imponere, frater-
nitas vestra cum omni Sollicitudine ac vigilantia
diversis quibus potuerit modis de vita aclibusque
ipsius requirere studeat. Et si nihil est quod ei ca-
nonice possit obsislere, requirendum quoque est si
in opere Dei $tudium habuit, vel * psalmos novit.
Et $i talis ſuerit, eum ad nos cum teslificationis
SUP epistola dirigat. Si vero aliter ſuerit, vestris
nobis similiter epistolis indicate, et habitatores loci
D episcopalis sub archiepiscopo Senensi. Gussanv.
Etruriz, et agri Urbevelani, vulgo Orvietan, in di-
tione ponliſicis, adbuc episcopalis, Romano pontilici
immediale $ubdita, Gussavv.
Morinus de sacris ordinat., part. 1tt, exercitl. 3, C.
2. Dissentit Thomass., part. 1, lib. 1, c. 3b, bum.
11 et s8eqq. :
ipsius adhortamini ut $i is{e aptus non fuerit, sicut A lalia requirenies monachi yenerunt, meque $:w!uit
et suprascripto Auſrido filio nostro scripsimus, alium
Sibi cligant gui ad. hoc officium cum gratia Dei aptus
yaleat juyeniri \.
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