Gregory to Rufinus, bishop of Vibona. From the inhabitants of the Estate of Nicotera, whose bishop has for certain faults been assigned to penance, we have learned by their report that there is no presbyter there who can celebrate the sacred solemnities of the masses—so far that they assert even their children have remained without baptism. And since for this cause they have greatly begged that a presbyter ought to be ordained for them in the same Church to which your Fraternity extends the labor of visitation, on this account we exhort you by the present writings that you ought to seek out from the clergy of that same Church one whose life and morals can suit this office, and that you hasten, the Lord aiding, to consecrate him presbyter there.
For it is very hard that, until the case of Musa their bishop be subtly inquired into, that Church should have no presbyter who can there celebrate the sacred work. In the month of July, in the fourteenth indiction.