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Gregorius Cypriano diacono rectori Siciliæ. Lilybetanæ clerus Ecclesiæ huc pro ordinando sibi vcniens sacerdote, licentiam eis de exquirendo sibi epiacopo nos dedisse cognoscas. a Qui reperientes Decium forensem presbyterum, sibi eum consecrari multis precibus poposcerunt, quorum petitionem necessarium duximus adimplere. Et ideo dilectio tua in omnibus ei solatiari non negligaL; ut, qua b Theodorus qnondam ejusdem Ecclesiæ episcopus dereli. quit plurima quae emendari debeant, tuo in omnibus adjutus auxilio, dumtaxat æquitate servata, causarum 802 inquietudinibus liberior, in Dei laudibus possit existere.
額我略致西西里的執事兼管理者西彼廉。你要知道，利利貝烏姆教會的聖職人員來此為自己按立司鐸，我們已准許他們自行尋覓主教。他們找到了本鎮司鐸德基烏斯，以許多懇求請求把他祝聖給他們，我們認為有必要成全他們的請願。因此願你的仁愛在萬事上不忽略協助他；使他在你各方面的援助下，同時仍保持公平，得以較不受訴訟紛擾，能專務於讚美天主，尤其處理那從前該教會主教泰奧多爾所遺留下、亟須修正的許多事務。
Gregory to Cyprian, deacon and rector of Sicily. Know that when the clergy of the Church of Lilybaeum came here to have a priest ordained for themselves, we granted them license to seek out a bishop for themselves. Finding Decius, a priest of the town, they besought with many prayers that he be consecrated for them, and we judged it needful to fulfil their petition. And therefore let your Charity not neglect to assist him in all things; so that, aided in all things by your help, with equity nevertheless preserved, being freer from the disturbances of lawsuits, he may be able to devote himself to the praises of God concerning the many things which Theodorus, once bishop of that same Church, left behind that ought to be amended.