Your holiness does not doubt concerning our zeal and prayer: since we wish the true religion of the Christians and the apostolic faith to remain firm, and to be preserved with a pious mind by every people. Finally, we do not doubt that the security of our power consists in right religion and in the propitiation of our Savior. Wherefore we have gladly and, as was fitting, with a grateful mind received the most reverend men whom your holiness directed to our piety. It remains that, if it please your blessedness to come into these parts and to celebrate a synod, you may deign to do this out of affection for religion:
your holiness will assuredly satisfy our desires, and will decree those things which are useful for the sacred religion. But if it be burdensome that you should come to these parts, let your holiness make this very thing known to us by your own letters, so that our sacred letters may be directed into all the East, and into Thrace itself and Illyricum, that at a certain appointed place, where it shall have pleased us, all the most holy bishops ought to convene, and by their disposition may declare those things which are of profit to the religion of the Christians and to the catholic faith, as your holiness has defined according to the ecclesiastical rules.