Quote from Letter 6,21 to Peter, bishop of Otranto, visitor of Brindisi, Lecce and Gallipoli. November 595
(W)e recognize that the chruches of Brindise, Lecce and Gallipoli are entrirely destitute, with the deaths of their bishops, fro that reason we have thought that the task of their visitation should be atteteched to your Fraternity (...).
For that reason yoyr Fraternity will go quickly to the aforesaid churches, and will hasten to warn the clergy and people of the same churches, with repeated exhortations, to remove partisanship and with one and the same consensus to look for priests to be put in charge of them, such men as can be found worthy of such an important ministry and are in no way rejected by the venerable canons of the church.
(W)e recognize that the chruches of Brindise, Lecce and Gallipoli are entrirely destitute, with the deaths of their bishops, fro that reason we have thought that the task of their visitation should be atteteched to your Fraternity (...).
For that reason yoyr Fraternity will go quickly to the aforesaid churches, and will hasten to warn the clergy and people of the same churches, with repeated exhortations, to remove partisanship and with one and the same consensus to look for priests to be put in charge of them, such men as can be found worthy of such an important ministry and are in no way rejected by the venerable canons of the church.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 417
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