Habere autem solet ipsa insula rectorem semper abbatem presbyterum, cuius iuri et omnis provincia, et ipsi etiam episcopi, ordine inusitato, debeant esse subiecti, iuxta exemplum primi doctoris illius, qui non episcopus, sed presbyter extitit et monachus: de cuius vita et verbis nonnulla a discipulis eius feruntur scripta haberi.
Moreover, the same isle is always wont to have an abbot that is a priest to be the ruler, to whose law both the whole district and also the bishops themselves ought, after an unaccustomed order, to be subject, according to the example of that first teacher who was no bishop, but a priest and a monk: of whose life and sayings the report is that some things remain written by his scholars.
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