Letter 2043: Three churches in your region are currently without bishops, and their oversight needs to be assigned during the...
AD FELICEN EPISCOPUM,
Trium vacantium Ecclesiarum visi(ationem injungit,
Gregorijus * Felici epigcopo ® de Acropoli.
Quoniam © Yelina (Grat. 12, g. 1, c. 14), * Buxen-
tina, el © Blandana Eecclesiz, quz tibi in vicino 8unt
con$litulz, Sacerdotis pogcuntur vacare regimine;
proplerea ſralernilati luz earum golemniter operam
visilationis injungimus, illud pre omnibus commo=-
nenles, ul ubi praefatarum Ecclesiarum give dicece-
$e08 earum, vel diaconi, sive religiosz personz in»
vente ſueripl, districte canoniceque ut vivant f mo«
dis omnibus studebis. Nec passim eis in qualibet re
Sit excedendi licentia, sed tuo moderamine atque pro-
visione inculpabiliter in qua sunt conversatlione vel
EPISTOLARUM LIB, It, — INDICT, X. — EPIST. XLY.
A Officii nostri decet valde propomtum s1djectis ma-
gnopere suadere ut rebus debeant QQG $ervare fi-
dem © in placitis ; ne dum inconsiderate lucrandt
rapiuntur studio, pacificam veriant conventionem in
jurgium. Pervevit itaque ad nos ſraternitatis tua
4 clericos, terras Aſricane tenentes Ecelesie, quod
nant. Quod gi verum est, et ad fraternitatis tuz hee
aunt periata notitiam, tua in hoc desidia eorum cul-
pa nutrita est. Ob quam rem scriptis te presentibus
admonemus, quatenus ad persolvendam pensionem
nulla mora nullaque excusatione eosdem clericos uti
permittas. Sed si tidem honestatis eontemplaſione
gervare postponunt, tua districtione compulsi, que
rationi conveniunt cogantur implere. Nam 8i hujus
habitu perseverent ; sciturus, si quid secus accesse- B rei ad nos denuo querela recurrerit, et de te aliam
rit, two neglectui modis omnibus imputari. 8 Presby-
eros quoque vel diacones, si in aliquibus kecdesiis
* previderis ordinandos, si tales persone fuerint que
Sint recondita, sollicita indagalione perquire; qui-
bus repertis, ad pastram notionem perducere festi-
nato, ut cognoscentes quid fiendum sit, adjutore Do-
mino, dispPonamus.
EPISTOLA XLIY.
\_AÞ—LUCILLUM EPISCOPUM-
Ut clericos 8u0s ferrarum Aſricgn@ Kcelegin ques
tenebant, pensionem absque mora cogal persolvere.
Gregorius * Lucillo episcopo Þ de Melita,
#x$timationem habere incipiemus, et in illos, ut di.
gnum est, vindicabimus.
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