Letter 3011: I write to inform you that a bishop has been ordained for your church.

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)The order and people of Albano|c. 592 AD|Pope Gregory the Great|AI-assisted
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To the clergy and people of Albanum.

[The heading notes: their bishop, having been ordained.]

Gregory to the clergy and people residing in Albanum.

To your worthy desires we have brought no delay [...] we have ordained for you a good priest [bishop].

In the month of November, in the first indiction.

[The remainder of the source consists of garbled editorial footnotes and scholarly cross-references to other letters and to the Council of Chalcedon, not part of the letter itself, and is too corrupted to render: ...]

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Latin / Greek Original

AD ORDINEM ET PLEBEM ALBANENSEM.
| Ordinatum ipais episcopum.

Gregorius ordiai eb plebi couxigtentibus in ©® Al-
bago. |
Probabilibus > desideriis nihil attulimus tarditatis,

EersT. X., — * Vide epist. 25 lib. 1.

Www ynioahs Gudiuw, & wchismalis odium quando-
quidem veritalem quasi obscurat Superiaducto ma-
lagmale, W ishius Sybdiaconi meulem e:oliens
Eeclesiaz cogsSocigt. Lege epigt. 3) lib. ww, ad Con-
= de his mode personis actum, de
quibys nilil iu Chalcedoneasi concilio coulinelur.
bugaxy. Quad hic docet Gregorius, iisdem pee ves-
bis legitur bb, 1y, egish 59. Sepsus Sauch Doctogis
esl ad concilium oe Hon Dei gou pertinere quid-
quid extra aut ultra fidei definitioveww statutum est
4+ Pers0ns Auk alis negoliis. Eadem es Velagii If
duclripa maxime epigt. 2, ad Elam et ad alios lslrig
epiSCoPus, quam A Greguiio Scriptam diximus supra.

Poxro, praecipua you regipieudi pro. Chalced. Concilio +

quedam iy viticais achvonibus Sancita ratio fuil quod

vel absenlibys, vel repuguanlibus legalis apestglicis,

vec approbante sancto Leone, fuerint conslitula.
Eeasrt. XI. — * Albauvuw, vulgo Albans, civilas La-

bonum vobis ordinavimus sacerdotem. > Mense No-
vembri, indictione 1.

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