RRR:
2710
YEAR:
1248
text:
August 12. Lyons. Pope Innocent IV writes to the former bishop of Paphos [Giovanni Romano] residing in Acre, relating that the scholar Simone Bulgaro, son of the noble man Bulgarino Bulgaro, citizen of Genoa, informed him that, since the pope once wrote to the patriarch of Jerusalem (Robert de Nantes) concerning his reception and provision in the church of Sidon, and he was received as a canon and brother by part of the chapter of Sidon, the patriarch did not want to proceed, as Simone asserts, with the pope’s mandate against the other part of the chapter, which continued to refuse to accept him, so Simone was forced to take recourse to the pope. The pope orders the addressee to proceed according to the letter he sent to the patriarch, forcing those who contradict with ecclesiastical censure.
Sources:
Guerello, Lettere di Innocenzo IV, 75-76, no. 42; Ferretto, ‘I Genovesi in Oriente nel carteggio di Innocenzo IV’, pp. 360-61, no. XXVIII, misdated to 14 August
