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 5
1To Bishop Felix and Cyriacus the Abbot, on Theodosia’s Monastery2To Constantius, Bishop of Milan, on Fallen Clergy3To Dominicus, Bishop of Carthage, on the Synod Against the Heretics4To Cyprian the Deacon, on the Manichaeans, the Jews, and Loans to the Peasants5To John, Bishop of Ravenna, on the Pallium in Processions6To John, Bishop of Ravenna, a Rebuke for His Tongue and His Pride7To Cyprian the Deacon, on a Successor to Maximianus of Syracuse8To John, Bishop of Constantinople, on the Title of Universal Bishop9To Sabinianus the Deacon, on the Letter to John of Constantinople10To the Emperor Maurice, Against the Title of Universal Bishop11To the Empress Constantina, Against the Title of Universal Bishop12To Castorius the Notary, on Electing a Bishop for Ravenna13To Severus, Bishop of Ficulum, on the Church of Ravenna14To the People of Ravenna, on the Death of Their Bishop15To Vincomalus, Appointing Him Defensor of the Church16To the Emperor Maurice, on the Gold Sent for the Poor17To Severus, the Exarch’s Adviser, on Peace with the Lombards18To Anastasius, Bishop of Antioch, on His Return to His See19To the Emperor Maurice, on Being Called Simple20To the Empress Constantina, on Sardinia, Corsica and Sicily21To Sebastian, Bishop of Sirmium22To Eulogius and Anastasius, on the Title of Universal Bishop23To Andrew the Scholasticus, on the Choice of Marinianus24To Leander, Bishop of Seville, with the Pastoral Rule25To John, Archbishop of Corinth26To Virgilius, Bishop of Arles, Granting the Pallium and the Vicariate27To All the Bishops of Childebert’s Kingdom, on the Vicar at Arles28To King Childebert, on Arles and the Sale of Orders29To Marinianus, Bishop of Ravenna, on the Pallium30To John, Bishop of Corinth, on the Pallium and Simony31To All the Bishops of Helladia