Gregory the Great, bishop of Rome from 590 to 604: the Book of Pastoral Rule on what a pastor is and how he should teach each kind of person, and his selected letters from the Register, from the Lombard wars and the mission to the English to the quarrel over the title Ecumenical Patriarch. Modern English from the Post-Nicene Fathers translation.
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Contents
Letters, Book 2
1To Velox, Master of the Soldiers2To the People of Naples, on Electing a Bishop3To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse, on His Charge over the Churches of Sicily4To the People of Naples, on Their Wish for Paulus5To Paulus, Bishop of Naples6To Castorius, Bishop of Rimini, on Timothea’s Oratory7To Bishop Paulus, on His Wish to Leave Naples8To Natalis, Bishop of Salona, on Restoring Honoratus9To All the Bishops of Dalmatia10To Antoninus the Subdeacon, on Natalis and Honoratus11To All the Bishops of Illyricum12To John, Bishop of Prima Justiniana, on His Election and the Pallium13To Bishop John, on the Church of Nepi14To Rusticiana the Patrician, on Her Vow to Visit the Holy Places15To Maurilius and Vitalianus, on Ariulph’s Approach16To Maurilius and Vitalianus, on the People of Suana17To Peter the Subdeacon in Sicily, on the Church’s Estates18To Justinus, Praetor of Sicily19To Maximianus, Bishop of Syracuse, on the Abbot Eusebius20To Eusebius the Abbot21To John, Bishop of Squillace22To Castorius, Bishop of Rimini, on the Privileges of Monasteries23To Luminosus the Abbot24To John, Bishop of Ravenna, on Ariulph and the Exarch25To Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage, on the Weight of the Priesthood26To Columbus, Bishop in Numidia, on the Donatists27To Januarius, Archbishop of Cagliari, on Anathema for a Private Wrong28To All Bishops, on the Three Chapters29To Natalis, Bishop of Salona, on Feasts and Reading30From Bishop Licinianus, on the Book of Rules