Quote from Letter 9.100 to Serenus, bishop of Ancona. January 599
Now that the city of Osimo has recovered, with God's help, and is known to be held by the republic, great concern must be about the church itself, most of all because we know that our glorious son and general, Bahan, has hoped for this matter. And for that reason, we have taken care to send the present letter to your Fraternity, asking you to go to the same church as its sitter, in the usual way.
And it is proper for you to do this in such a way that nothing is presumed for the church by any one concerning the promotions of clergy, revenue, clothing and tableware, and whatever else there is in the patrimony of the same church. And your Fraternity will hasten to warn the clergy and people of this church with continual encouragement to seek out such a priest as should be put in charge of them, one who might be found worthy of so great a ministry and would in no way be rejected by the venerable canons, and to do so without any partiality but with joint consensus.
Now that the city of Osimo has recovered, with God's help, and is known to be held by the republic, great concern must be about the church itself, most of all because we know that our glorious son and general, Bahan, has hoped for this matter. And for that reason, we have taken care to send the present letter to your Fraternity, asking you to go to the same church as its sitter, in the usual way.
And it is proper for you to do this in such a way that nothing is presumed for the church by any one concerning the promotions of clergy, revenue, clothing and tableware, and whatever else there is in the patrimony of the same church. And your Fraternity will hasten to warn the clergy and people of this church with continual encouragement to seek out such a priest as should be put in charge of them, one who might be found worthy of so great a ministry and would in no way be rejected by the venerable canons, and to do so without any partiality but with joint consensus.
Cited from: The Letters of Gregory the Great, trans. John R.C. Martyn (Toronto: PIMS, 2004), II, 602
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