Letter 5001: I must address a practice that has been reported to me and that I regard as problematic: the appointment of clerics...

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)John|c. 598 AD|Pope Gregory the Great
monasticism

AD JOANNEM RAVENNATEM EPISCOPUNM.

Non preponendos monasteriis clericos Ecclesiis de-
8ervientes, |

Gregorius Joanni Ravennali episcopo, elc.

Pervenit ad me (Grat. 18, g. 1, c. 26) * quod in
Eeclesia fraternitatis tuz aliqua loca dudum mona-
sLler.is consecrala nunc habitacula clericorum aut
eliam laicorum ſacta sunt ; dumque hi qui sunt in
ecclesiis fingunt $e religiose vivere, monasteriis pre-
pon: appetunt, et per eorum vitam monasteria de-

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