This passage is a fragment of a letter, which may have been written up to two years before the council. Its author, Peter, the abbot of a monastery in Byzacena, seeks the confirmation of his right to ask bishops of Carthage to ordain presbyters for his monastery. Peter enumerates many monasteries receving consolatio  from the bishops from outside, and brings up the case of the monastery of Hadrumetum (also in Byzacena), regularly taking its presbyters from overseas (probably Italy). The wording of the passage is a bit strange, as it seems to suggest that the monks were performing the presbyterial ordinations themselves.