Letter 7021: The church of Rimini has been without a bishop long enough.
AD SEBASTIANUM EPISCOPUM.
Ut clerum et plebem Ariminensem ad idonei anlislilis
electionem urgeat. |
Gregorius Sebasliano episcopo.
Pasioralis nos cura conslringit Ecclesiis sacerdo-
lis moderamine deslitutis sollicita consideratione
concurrere, Et ideo quia Ariminensis Ecclesia cui
ſraternitas vestra Visitationis impendit officium, diu
sacerdolis proprii, corporis qua nostis impediente
molestia, paslorali est regimine deslituta , cleri vel
civium Pprecibus permoti, eumdem episcopum non
destitimus admonere ut $i ex eadem molestia se me-
lioratum esse sentirel, ad Suscepti Sacerdolii debuis-
set ministerium remeare. Qui $semel a nobis sx-
piusve commonitus, cadem urgente molestia nunc
scriplis nobis supplicatione porrecta noscitur inti-
masse nullatenus se ad regimen ejusdem Ecclesie
vel susceptum offlicium, impediente moleslia, assur-
gere posse. Qua personz ejus des-perationve compulsi,
necessarium duximus de ordinatione nos ejusdem
Ecclesiz cegi:are. Horlamur ergo ut clerum, ple-
bemque Ecclesiz ejusdem sollicita debeatis admoni-
tione compellere, ut Sibi cum Domini auxilio talem
preliciendum eligant Sacerdolem, qui et aptus tanto
minisLlerio valeat inveniri, el a vernerandis cauonibus
nullo modo respuatur. Qui dum fuerit postwlatus,
cum $o0lemaitlate decrelti omuium $ubscriptionibus
roborati, vestrarum qguoque lestimonio lilterarum,
huc sacrandus occurrat, qualenus Ecclesia ipsa pro-
prium, auxiliante Domino, habere valeat sacerdo-
. let. * Mense Maio.
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