Editing Pope Innocent IV (section)

==Relations with the Jews==
[[File:Patio of the Synagogue of Córdoba.JPG|thumb|265x265px|The courtyard of Córdoba Synagogue.]]
Innocent claimed that additionally to the duty of the pope to protect all Christians, this also applied to all Jews. As such, he re-issued the ''[[Sicut Judaeis|Sicut Iudaeis]]'', also in response to allegations of ritual murder against the Jews of [[Vienne (department)|Vienne]], but he could not stop local persecutions.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Rist |first1=Rebecca |title=Popes and Jews, 1095-1291 |date=2016 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-871798-0 |page=24, 80, 89-90, 96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NGvQCgAAQBAJ |access-date=15 February 2025 |language=en}}</ref>

In April 1250 (5 Iyar<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.torahtots.com/timecapsule/thismonth/iyar.htm#5 |website=Torah Tots |access-date=6 May 2022 |title=This Month in Jewish History – Iyar |archive-date=10 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190910194651/http://www.torahtots.com/timecapsule/thismonth/iyar.htm#5 |url-status=live }}</ref>), Innocent IV ordered the [[Bishop of Córdoba]] to take action against the Jews who were building a [[Córdoba Synagogue#Building Restrictions|synagogue]] whose height was not acceptable to the local clergy. Documents from the reign of Pope Innocent IV recorded resentment toward a prominent new congregational synagogue:<ref name="Ben-Dov pp149–161">{{Cite book|title=The Golden Age: Synagogues of Spain in History and Architecture|last=Ben-Dov|first=Meir|publisher=Urim Publications|year=2009|isbn=978-965-524-0160|location=Israel|pages=149–161}}</ref>

<blockquote>The Jews of Cordoba are rashly presuming to build a new synagogue  of unnecessary height thereby scandalizing faithful Christians, wherefore ... we command [you] ... to enforce the authority of your office against the Jews in this regard....<ref name="Sepharad">{{Cite book |date=1992 |editor-last=Cohen-Mushlin |editor-first=Aliza |article=Sepharad |title=Jewish Art |publisher=The Hebrew University |location=Jerusalem |volume=18 |pages=31–41 |isbn=965-391-003-5|issn=0792-0660}}</ref></blockquote>