Era
Vol. 2: A 804 usque ad 1077
Date
Between January 844 and January 847, that is, during the pontificate of Pope Sergius II
Regestum

Pope Sergius II writes to Andrew, the patriarch of Aquileia, addressing his ongoing dispute with Venerius, the patriarch of Grado, urging patience, suggesting the convening of a general synod to address these issues, and emphasizing the need for imperial authority to finally put an end to this dispute between the two ecclesiastical sees.

Source
The original is lost; the text survives in the following manuscript tradition:
T = Venice, Archivio di Stato di Venezia, Pacta e aggregati, Codex Trevisaneus, fol. 62r; a late-15th-/early 16th-century simple copy, based on a copy from the nowadays lost Codex Egnatii, presumably from the 13th/14th century. The copy has the following title: Epistola Sergii pontifici ad Andream patriarcham Foroiuliensem and the following date and signature added in the top left corner: 843. Eg(natii) carta 94, Dand(ulo) carta 9.
Previous Editions
Adolf von Hirsch-Gereuth (ed.), Epistolae Karolini aevi III, Monumenta Germaniae historica, Epistolae 5 (Berlin 1899), doc. 2, pp. 584–585.
Roberto Cessi (ed.), Documenti relativi alla storia di Venezia anteriori al mille, vol. 1: Secoli V–IX (Padua 1940), doc. 57, pp. 110–111.
FIM Edition
Diplomatic edition based on T.
Transcription

Pro universis Dei ecclesiis diversa semper debemus tollerare certamina. Sic enim nos scriptura sępę admonet, dicens: “Ambulate, dum lucem habetis.”1 Nam Deoa suscepto magisterio, quod habemus divinitus attributum, ante opificis nostri oculos districtam posituri rationem erimus, si de sanctis Dei ecclesiis, quamdiu hic vivimus, negligentes vel desides fuerimus.

Et quia vestra nobis fraternitas nuper missos suos et epistolam misit pro intentione scilicet illa, quę inter vestram et Gradensem sedem hactenus manet, pro qua nostram fieri epistolam iussimus eamque per eosdem missos vestros Venerio patriarchę mandavimus, ut uterque vos simul et ille die sacro natalis beati Martini2 ad causam et intentionem vestrarum sedium perquirendam atque diffiniendam Romam debuissetis omni dilatione deposita pervenire.

Tamen, ut nihil exinde remaneat in posterum, hoc animo nostro venit consilium, ut sine auctoritate sive consensu karissimi filii nostri domni imperatoris3 hoc non debuissemus peragere. Et quia non solum vestra modo, verum etiam peneb omnes ecclesię scandala patiuntur, manda[vi]musc eidem domno imperatori, quod si ipsi libitum fuerit, adiuvante nos Christod, desiderium habemus generalem synodum congregare, quatenus ibidem quę nunc innormiter, quod cum magna contritione cordis dicimus, peragantur, confratrum nostrorum suffulti solatio correpta ac ventilata modis omnibus fiant.

Unde vos interim abstinere previdimus, quousque domnus noster imperator nobis exinde responsum mandare dignetur. Nam et Venerio patriarchę simili modo tenore mandavimus, ut usque ad tempus pro re supra dicta expectet. Tempore enim quo nos responsis imperialibus certi fuerimus, nostram ad vos epistolam destinabimus festinanter, ut quantocius ad audiendum vel ad sustinendum cannonicae nullatenus diferatis venire.

Deus enim te incolumen custodiat, reverentissime ac sanctissime frater.

Critical apparatus

a) de ed. Hirsch-Gereuth et Cessi, sed perperam.  bex penes corr. T.  c) mandamus T; mandavimus em. Hirsch-Gereuth.  dseq. hab canc. T.  esic T.


1Vulg., Ioh. 12:35.
2) November 11.
3) Emperor Lothar I.

Selected Bibliography
Paul Fridolin Kehr, “Rom und Venedig bis ins 12. Jahrhundert,” Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 19 (1927): p. 58.
Harald Krahwinkler, Friaul im Frühmittelalter: Geschichte einer Region vom Ende des fünften bis zum Ende des zehnten Jahrhunderts (Vienna–Cologne–Weimar 1992), p. 174.
Daniela Rando, Una chiesa di frontiera: Le istituzioni ecclesiastiche veneziane nei secoli VI–XII (Bologna 1994), p. 73.
Editor's Notes

As the dispute between the patriarchs of Grado and Aquileia regarding the metropolitan jurisdiction over the Istrian bishoprics did not wane following the Synod of Mantua (see doc. 827_SM and doc. 828_VP), Pope Sergius II endeavored to convene another synod, under the auspices of Emperor Lothar I, to finally resolve this long-lasting ecclesiastical conflict. However, such a synod never convened, and the dispute continued unabated.

How to Cite
First citation: Josip Banić (ed.), Fontes Istrie medievalis, vol. 2: A 804 usque ad 1077, doc. 844_SA, fontesistrie.eu/844_SA (last access: date).
Subsequent citations: FIM, 2: doc. 844_SA.
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