Innocent IV excommunicating emperor Frederick II at the Council of Lyon, 13th century
Church
Catholic Church
Papacy began
25 June 1243
Papacy ended
7 December 1254
Predecessor
Celestine IV
Successor
Alexander IV
Orders
Consecration
28 June 1243
Created cardinal
18 September 1227 by Gregory IX
Personal details
Born
Sinibaldo Fieschi
c. 1195
Genoa or Manarola, Republic of Genoa
Died
7 December 1254(1254-12-07) (aged 58–59) Naples, Kingdom of Sicily
Previous post(s)
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Pope Innocent IV (Latin: Innocentius IV; c. 1195 – 7 December 1254), born Sinibaldo Fieschi, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 25 June 1243 to his death in 1254.[1]
Fieschi was born in Genoa and studied at the universities of Parma and Bologna. He was considered in his own day and by posterity as a fine canonist. On the strength of this reputation, he was called to the Roman Curia by Pope Honorius III. Pope Gregory IX made him a cardinal and appointed him governor of the Ancona in 1235. Fieschi was elected pope in 1243 and took the name Innocent IV. He inherited an ongoing dispute over lands seized by the Holy Roman Emperor, and the following year he traveled to France to escape imperial plots against him in Rome. He returned to Rome in 1250 after the death of the Emperor Frederick II.
On May 15, 1252, he promulgated the bull Ad extirpanda authorizing torture against heretics, equated with ordinary criminals.[2]
^Eubel, p. 7. Butler, Alban and Paul Burns, Butler's lives of the Saints, (Liturgical Press, 2000), 131.
^Innocentius IV. "1243-1254 – SS Innocentius IV – Bulla 'Ad_Extirpanda' [AD 1252-05-15]" (PDF). Documenta Catholica Omnia. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
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