Letter 3.24 to Bishop Leontius of Urbino (March 593)
Gregory to Leontius, bishop of Urbino
Bishop Castor of Rimini lays ill in Rome, and would be for some time unable to come back to his diocese. Bishop Leontius is tasked with the visitation of Rimini.
Whaterver you think should be consecrated for the advantage of the same church, you will have free scope in every way, relying on our permission. But let your Solicitude carefully look after all the revenues and ornaments and services of that church. And beside the ordinations of clerics, we want you to do everything else in the aforesaid church as if incardinated as its own priest.
(trans. Martyn 2004: 251, slightly altered and summarised by J. Szafranowski)