Letter 13045

Gregory the Great (Wisigothic)Unknown|gregory great
From: Pope Gregory I
To: Eulogius, Bishop of Alexandria
Date: ~603 AD
Context: Gregory writes to Eulogius about what he has learned from his representative Boniface

My beloved brother Eulogius, your letter reached me along with the reports of Boniface, my representative at your court, and I have read both with great attention. What Boniface has conveyed to me about the state of your church and your own pastoral labors has given me both admiration and concern in roughly equal measure. The admiration is for your evident care for orthodoxy and for the souls in your charge. The concern is for the difficulties you continue to face — which I know are not of your making and which I wish I had more power to alleviate from this distance. Know that Alexandria has no warmer advocate in Rome than this see, and that your letters are always welcomed here.

Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.