Letter 6041: **From:** Gregory I, Bishop of Rome
AD RUFINUM EPISCOPUM.
In Ecclesia Mazse Nicoterane presbyterum ordinan-
dum, qui episcopi in penitentiam depulati vice
baptizet ac celebret Migsas.
Gregorius Ruſino episcopo *® Vivonensi.
Ex habitatoribus Þ Mass:z -Nicoteranze, quorum
episcopus pro quibusdam culpis in penitentiam g24
depulatus est, relatione comperimus nullum illic esse
presbyterum qui $acra possit missarum $olemnia ce-
lebrare, in tautum ut etiam filios su0s sine baptismate
asserant remansisse. Et quia hac pro causa magnopere
petiverunt $ibi in eadem Ecclesia cui fraternitas
vestra operam visitationis impendit debere presby-
terum ordinari, ea propler scriplis vos prasentibus
adhortamur, ut de clero ejusdem Ecclesiz requirere
debeatis, cujus vita et mores ad hoc possint officium
convenire, et eum illic presbyterum ſeslinetis, auxi-
liante Domino, consecrare. Nam valde durum est ut
quousque causa episcopi eorum subtiliter requiratur,
non habeat Eecclesia illa presbyterum, qui sacrum il-
lic opus valeat celebrare. © Mense Julio, indictione 14.
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