16 surviving letters between Boniface and Pope Gregory the Great, spanning c. 593–753.
Gregory to Boniface, Bishop of Regium (Reii). It is a shame for priests to be admonished about matters of divine worship. For they are then to their disgrace required to do what they ought themselves to require to be done.
Gregory to Boniface concerning the privileges of Guardians. Those who labour faithfully in the interests of the Church should receive the benefit of suitable remuneration, so that both we may be seen to have made a worthy return for their services, and they may show themselves the more useful for the favour of the solace granted them. Seeing, th...
Your experience is not free from blame, in that, knowing Aleria and Adjacium, cities of Corsica, to have been long without bishops, you have delayed admonishing their clergy and people to choose for themselves priests. But, since they ought to be no longer without rulers of their own, hasten, on receiving this authority, to exhort the clergy and...
Gregory to Boniface, Deacon at Constantinople . As often as the discord of those who ought to have been preachers of peace makes us sad, we should study with great solicitude that cause of contention may be removed, and that those who differ among themselves may return to concord. Now what has been done with respect to the camp of Cassiopus, whi...
“[Context: Gregory was known as "The Younger ", 715-31.”
“[Context: This oath is based upon one usually taken by the bishops of the sub-urbicarian sees, but here there is no expr…”
“[Context: To his most reverend brother and fellow-bishop Boniface,] Gregory, the servant of the servants of God.”
“Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to Boniface, our most holy brother and colleague in the episcopate.”
“Gregory, the servant of the servants of God, to our most reverend and holy brother Bishop Boniface, sent by this apostol…”
“Gregory, servant of the servants of God.”
“[Context: Pope Zacharias (741-52) was of Greek extraction.”
“Zacharias, servant of the servants of God, to his very reverend' and holy brother and fellow bishop Boniface.”
“Zacharias, servant of the servants of God, to his very reverend and holy brother and fellow-bishop, Boniface.”
“To the most reverend and beloved lord and master to be revered in fear and honour, Zacharias, invested with the privileg…”
“[Context: On the death of Pope Zacharias a certain Stephen was elected (23 March 752) but died three days later before h…”
“To his venerable and beloved apostolic lord and Pope Stephen, Boniface, a humble legate or messenger in Germany of the C…”