Letter 9129: I need you to act in concert with Paulinus of Tauriana, Proclus of Nicoteras, and Paludius of Consentia on the...
The clergy of the church of Regium [Reggio], by a petition submitted to us, have complained much against our most reverend brother Bonifatius the bishop, asking that they ought to have had license to come to us, so that these very cases might here be examined in detail. But because we did not for the present foresee that our aforesaid brother should be brought here at this time, it seemed good to us to depute the case to be investigated there. And therefore, in the presence of the most holy Gospels, let your Experience [the addressee], together with our most reverend brothers and fellow-bishops Paulinus, Proculus, Palumbus, Venerius, and Marcianus, without respect to any person's standing, examine with all fairness and diligence both the complaints of the clergy against their bishop, as we have said, and also any complaint that he in turn may perhaps have had against them; and whatever you shall have learned in truth, let it be reported to us in detail and carefully, together with our aforesaid brothers, so that, being made more certain by the report of your Experience, we may decree what ought to be done.
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Latin / Greek Original
Clerus' eccleBiae Regitanae multa contra'' reverendBBimum fratrem noatrum Boni-
fatium' epiBcopnm Buura ' data nobis petitione conqueatuB est petenB, ut ad nos de-
buiBset habere veniendi iicentiam, quatenuB causae ipBae hic Buptiliter probarentur.
Sed quia uob interim praedtctum fratrem noBtrum hic*' modo non praevidimuB deducen-
dnm, viBum nobis eat illic deputare causam eadom* cogQOBcendam. Et ideo mediis
BacroaanctiB evangeliiB cxperientia tua una cum Paulino', Proculo', Palumbo* vel Ve-
nerio' atque Uarciano* reverentisBimiB fratribus coepiscopiBque nostriB sine cuiusquam
perBonae reapectu tam clericorum quorcllaro, quam adversus suum, sicut diximuB,
habot' opiscopum, vel ai quara forto illc contra oos" habuerit, oum omni aequitate ac
Bollicitudiue perscrutetur ot, quicquid in veritate coguovcrit, nobis una cum prsedictis
fratribus'' nostris suptiliter diligentcrque significet, ut renuntiatiouo cxperientiao vestrao'
redditi ccrtiorcs, quid ficri dobcat, deccmamus.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern gregory great retranslated v1.
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