Quote from Letter 1.156 to Marinianus, bishop of ravenna. May 599
And now all those who live in the aforesaid island [of Cáorle] have been deprived of the protection of a priest. For while they desire to be united with the Holy Church, they cannot receive that bishop now, as he has reverted to the error of the schismatics, and they ask that another priest be consecrated for them. But since it is necessary for us to examine all of this strictly and very carefully, we have decided that the following should be arranged.
Your fraternity is to send a message to that bishop and warn him to return to the unity of the Catholic Church and to his own people. And if he refuses to return after this warning, God's flock ought not to be beguiled by the shepherd's error. And for that reason, your Holiness should consecrate a bishop there and he should include that land in his own diocese, until the Istrian bishops revert to the Catholic Faith, so that we may preserve their diocesan laws of each individual church, and so that there should be no lack of a bishop's protection and care for a congregation without a pastor.
And now all those who live in the aforesaid island [of Cáorle] have been deprived of the protection of a priest. For while they desire to be united with the Holy Church, they cannot receive that bishop now, as he has reverted to the error of the schismatics, and they ask that another priest be consecrated for them. But since it is necessary for us to examine all of this strictly and very carefully, we have decided that the following should be arranged.
Your fraternity is to send a message to that bishop and warn him to return to the unity of the Catholic Church and to his own people. And if he refuses to return after this warning, God's flock ought not to be beguiled by the shepherd's error. And for that reason, your Holiness should consecrate a bishop there and he should include that land in his own diocese, until the Istrian bishops revert to the Catholic Faith, so that we may preserve their diocesan laws of each individual church, and so that there should be no lack of a bishop's protection and care for a congregation without a pastor.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 640.
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