Quote from Letter 5,10 to each of the bishops throughout Illyria. October 594.
(W)e have found out that in the person of John, our brother and fellow-bishop, the consensus of all of you and the wish of our most serene emperor are in accord. Great exultation has filled us, therefore, that such a man has been promoted, with the authority of God, to the office of bishop, a man who has been proved worthy of all things by the judgement of his election.
Therefore, in accordance with the purpose of your demand, with the authority of our assent we confirm that our brother and fewllow-bishop mentioned above is esthablished in the rank of priesthood which he holds, and we declare that we consider his ordination as ratified, by sending him the pallium.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II: 329.
About Me & About the Project
- Arnold Smeets
- BIO - I am a theologian. Radio broadcaster at Dutch Public Broadcast Organisation KRO-NCRV and Senior Research Fellow at CPO (Centre for Patristic Studies), the Netherlands. In 2007 I took my degree cum laude at the Faculty of Catholic Theology of the University of Tilburg on a semiotic analysis of three letters of Pope Gregory the Great (Ad Leandrum, concerning his own conversion, and Ep. xi,37 and Ep. xi,56, two instructions on the mission of the English). PROJECT - Every few days I'll blog a paragraph and twitter a line from one of Gregory the Great's Letters. Passages from the letters are quoted with kind permission of the publishers, Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada.
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