Gregory to the clergy of the Church of Capua residing at Naples. Since Fuscus, bishop of the Church of Capua, stationed here, has departed from this light, it has been our care to entrust solemnly the visitation of the bereaved Church to our brother and fellow bishop Gaudentius, bishop of the city of Nola, to whom we have given in charge that he suffer nothing of the promotions of the clergy, revenue, ornaments, and ministries to be usurped by anyone. It behooves you to obey his assiduous exhortations, so that in ecclesiastical service and in the praises of God you ought to persist with vigilant care, and to compose your morals under the worthy discipline of ecclesiastical governance.
Nor let any of you dare to oppose his precepts, but in all ecclesiastical observance, as well as in the guardianship of your Church, show obedience to his provisions, so that, while your obedience has been rendered to his governance, both the profit of your Church may in no way be neglected, and his care for it may be the more attentive.