Letter 9210: I am sending to you John, whom I have ordained as your bishop according to the canonical requirements of this see.

The bearers of this letter have given me a full account of the zeal and energy you have shown in addressing the...

I have received at the hands of the bearer of these presents the letter of your most sweet Holiness, speaking to me about your cause being terminated speedily. But, as soon as he had come, he learned how the possession which he sought from our Church was held, and soon satisfied himself about it. The business he had with others he settled withou...

Gregory to Secundinus and John, bishops.

How we may presume on your Charity we gather from the disposition of our own mind with regard to you. Nor do we think that you love the Apostolic See otherwise than as it loves you. Whence it must needs be that we should more peculiarly commend those whom we know to be, as they should be, devoted in the Church of the blessed Peter, Prince of the...

Gregory to Peter, subdeacon [Gregory's administrator in Sicily].