Your Appointment

Letter 1,77 - to Martin, bishop in Corsica. August 591.

"We ought to lend a kindly ear to those asking for justice, so that those seeking remedies find what they hoped for, and the pastor's concern does not fail the Church.
The church of Tania, in which your Fraternity has long been decked with priestly honor, has been so occupied and torn apart by the enemy's ferocity, due to our sins, that no hope remains of returning there any more.
So with this authority we have appointed you without hesitation as incardinate priest to the church of Aleria, that has long since been destitute of the support of its bishop, in line with the manner of your request.
Therefore, dispose and organize these things in accordance with all the precepts of the Church canons, with vigilant care and in fear of God, so that your Fraternity is glad to have obtained its desires, and that the church of God is filled with the reciprocal joy, seeing that you have become its incardinate bishop."

Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), I: 190.