_ 241 _ Episodes of the year 1585 The Third Ecclesiastical Council of the Goa region issued a decree, regarding mosques, churches, and Jewish temples in Ormuz, Goa, in 1585:(40) Decree: 3 The Council has also been informed that there are still Hindu temples, Moorish mosques and Jewish synagogues in our Lord the King’s fortress and city of Ormuz, with many Jews, not only native but also foreign, and other ministers of idolatry and the Moorish sect. The Council asks the Viceroy, in conformity with the said decree, to order that the temples be destroyed and their ministers expelled, and that all Jews, especially the foreign ones, be thrown out of the city and told to destroy their synagogues, in view of the harm they do to Christianity in that city. (40) Document no. and reference.
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