Gregory to the clergy and people residing at Naples. What judgement your charity has formed concerning our brother and fellow-bishop Paul, the report you have sent has made plain. And since you have tested him in these few days to such a degree that you desire to have him as your resident bishop, we rejoice. But because in matters of the highest importance the decision ought not to be a hasty one, we too are arranging, with Christ's help, by mature and careful deliberation, what ought to be done; and with the passage of time it will become better known to you of what quality he shows himself to be.
Therefore, most beloved sons, obey the aforesaid man, if you truly love him, and with devout minds come to meet him in a peaceful encounter, so that the love of mutual charity may so bind you to one another that the enemy, circling about to lay snares, may in none of you find a way to creep in and to break apart your unanimity. And when we shall have perceived that the aforesaid bishop is producing, by God's aid and his own, the fruit of souls which we desire for our God, then whatever after this the divine inspiration shall minister to our heart concerning his person and your desire, we shall do.