Et quia latiora sunt spatia locorum, quae ad gubernacula tuae dioecesis pertinent, quam ut solus per omnia discurrere, et in singulis viculis atque agellis verbum Dei praedicare, etiam anni totius emenso curriculo, sufficias, necessarium satis est, ut plures tibi sacri operis adiutores adsciscas, presbyteros videlicet ordinando, atque instituendo doctores, qui in singulis viculis praedicando Dei verbo, et consecrandis mysteriis caelestibus, ac maxime peragendis sacri baptismatis officiis, ubi opportunitas ingruerit, assistant.
And because the region over which the governance of your diocese extendeth is too wide for you to pass through it everywhere yourself alone and preach the word of God in the several villages and homesteads, even within the full course of a year, it is very necessary that you should take unto you many helpers in the holy work; to wit, by ordaining priests and appointing teachers, which in every village shall aid you with preaching the word of God and consecrating the heavenly mysteries, and especially with performing the rite of holy baptism, when occasion shall arise.
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