Letter 2039: Your church has been without settled episcopal leadership, and I have appointed the bishop John to serve as your...
AD CLERUM, ORDINEM, ET PLEBEM CROTONE.
Ut Joanni episcopo visitatori obediant , atque idoneum
sibi postulent sacerdotem.
Gregorius * clero, ordini et plebi consistenti Þ Cro-
tonze.
Vestri antistitis obitum cognoscentes, curz nobis
ſuit destitutze Ecclesiz visitationem ſfratri et coepi-
SCoP0 Nnos1iro © Joanni solemniter delegare. Cui de-
dimus in mandatis ut nibil de provectionibus cleri- g
corum, reditu, ornatu, ministeriisque a quoquam
vsurpari patiatur. Cujus vos assiduis adhortationibus -
obedire convenit , © quatenus in ecclesiastico officio
Sacerdos exquiratur qui et a venerandis. canonibus
nulla discrepet *© ratione. f Qui dum ſuerit postula-
tus, cum $0lemaitate decreti omnium subscriptioni-
bus roborati, et visitatoris pagina prosequente, ad
nos veniat ordinandus, provisuri anle omnia ne cu-
juslibet vitze vel meriti laicam personam presumatis
eligere. Nam non $8olum talem ad episcopatus apicem
GON nulla ratione provehendum, verum etiam 5 vos
nullis intercessionibus veniam promereri posse. cog-
noscite; sed omnes quos ex - vobis de laica persona
a$pirasse constiterit, ab officio et a communione alie-
nos ſaciendos procul dubio noveritis. (Cf. Joan. Diac.
l. m, c. 22.)
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