Letter 9099: The situation you have described regarding the church of Ariminum and its entanglement with civic matters is one...

Since the city of [...], with God's help, has been recovered and [restored], a care must be taken concerning that church itself, especially since Hosius [?], the master of soldiers of Italy, has expressed hope to us on this matter. Therefore we have taken care to direct written instructions to Your Fraternity in person, so that you may go there as visitor. And it befits you to conduct yourself in such a way that nothing of their [income], revenue, furnishings, and ministries, or whatever it may be, is diminished in [the patrimony or rights] of the church. And for this reason let Your Fraternity hasten with diligent [exhortations] to admonish the people of that same church, so that, with all partisanship set aside, they may seek for themselves such a priest to be set over them as can be found worthy and who is in no way rejected by the venerable canons. And let him, fortified with the solemnity of a decree by the subscriptions of all, come to us to be consecrated with the testimony of letters. Admonishing Your [Fraternity], do not permit anyone to be chosen from another church, unless perhaps in the meantime [...], in the one in which you are discharging the office of the visitation, no one worthy of the episcopate could be found; providing above all that they do not presume that an unworthy person should aspire to [...], and that you yourself do not incur the danger [of an improper ordination].