sentences:  That it was early is a reasonable conjecture, considering the facilities for communication with the East which the South of Italy possessed.The first indication that Amalfi was a Christian community is supplied by Pope Gregory the Great, who wrote in January 596 to the Subdeacon Antemius, his legate and administrator in Campania, ordering him to constrain within a monastery Primenus, Bishop of Amalfi, because he did not remain in his diocese, but roamed about.The regular list of bishops began in 829.