Letter 11007: I write to you concerning Victor, bishop of Fatianus, whose situation has been brought to my attention.
I write to you concerning Victor, bishop of Fatianus, whose situation has been brought to my attention. His diocese has, it seems, been subjected to interference — from whose hand I need not specify here, since you will know better than I. What I ask is simple: let the bishop exercise his proper jurisdiction without encroachment. The boundaries of church governance are not to be redrawn by secular authority, however well-intentioned. I know you are a man who respects proper order, and I trust you will see to it that this matter is corrected. The peace of the African church depends in no small part on its pastors being allowed to pastor.
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Latin / Greek Original
Qui pravonim* actuum eminentiam vestram** vindicem esse desiderat, quid de®
aequitatis eius bono^ sentiat, aestimatis. Proinde reverentissimi fratris et coepiscopi
nostri® Victoris Fausianensis^ episcopi®^ plenam vobis doloribus querellam deferimus,
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