List of churches in Rome

Map of the seven pilgrimage churches in Rome, published by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi (17th century)

This is a list of churches in Rome, organized by the modern administrative divisions of the city (rioni, quartieri, and suburban zones).

Rome contains one of the largest and most historically layered concentrations of churches in the world. The city's ecclesiastical landscape developed continuously from late antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the modern period, with many churches founded on earlier tituli, rebuilt across multiple centuries, and adapted to changing liturgical and urban conditions. As a result, individual churches often resist simple chronological classification, since early foundations frequently survive primarily in later medieval, Renaissance, or Baroque form.

Tituli

Pope Marcellus I (A.D. 306–308) is said to have recognized twenty five tituli in the City of Rome, quasi dioecesis.[1] It is known that in 336, Pope Julius I had set the number of presbyter cardinals to 28,[2] so that for each day of the week, a different presbyter cardinal would say mass in one of the four major basilicas of Rome, St. Peter's, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, and Basilica of St. John Lateran.[3] In Stephan Kuttner's view, "...the Roman cardinal priests and bishops were 'incardinated' for permanent (though limited) purposes into the patriarchal basilicas while remaining bound nonetheless to the churches of their original ordination."[4]

Only the tituli were allowed to distribute sacraments. The most important priest in a titulus was given the name of Cardinal.[5] Pope Marcellus I (at the beginning of the 4th century) confirmed that the tituli were the only centres of administration in the Church. In AD 499, a synod held by Pope Symmachus listed all the presbyters participating, as well as the tituli who were present at that time:[6]

  1. Titulus Aemilianae (Santi Quattro Coronati)
  2. Titulus Anastasiae (Santa Anastasia)
  3. Titulus SS Apostolorum (Santi Apostoli)
  4. Titulus Byzantis or Vizantis (unknown, perhaps "Titulus Pammachii")
  5. Titulus S Caeciliae (Santa Cecilia in Trastevere)
  6. Titulus Clementis (San Clemente)
  7. Titulus Crescentianae (San Sisto Vecchio)
  8. Titulus Crysogoni (San Crisogono)
  9. Titulus Cyriaci (Uncertain; theories include Santa Maria Antiqua and Santa Maria in Domnica)
  10. Titulus Damasi (San Lorenzo in Damaso)
  11. Titulus Equitii (San Martino ai Monti)
  12. Titulus Eusebi (Sant'Eusebio)
  13. Titulus Fasciolae (Santi Nereo e Achilleo)
  14. Titulus Gaii (Santa Susanna)
  15. Titulus Iulii (Santa Maria in Trastevere, identical with Titulus Callixti)
  16. Titulus Lucinae (San Lorenzo in Lucina)
  17. Titulus Marcelli (San Marcello al Corso)
  18. Titulus Marci (San Marco)
  19. Titulus Matthaei (in Via Merulana, destroyed in 1810)
  20. Titulus Nicomedis (in Via Nomentana, destroyed)
  21. Titulus Pammachii (Santi Giovanni e Paolo (Rome))
  22. Titulus Praxedis (Santa Prassede)
  23. Titulus Priscae (Santa Prisca)
  24. Titulus Pudentis (Santa Pudenziana)
  25. Titulus Romani (unknown, perhaps either Santa Maria Antiqua or Santa Maria in Domnica; whichever, the "Titulus Cyriaci" was not)
  26. Titulus S Sabinae (Santa Sabina)
  27. Titulus Tigridae (uncertain, perhaps Santa Balbina)
  28. Titulus Vestinae (San Vitale)

"Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome"

In the time of Pope Alexander II (1061-1073) those priests who served at St. Peter's Basilica were referred to as the seven cardinals of S. Peter's: septem cardinalibus S. Petri.[7] The four basilicas had no cardinal, since they were under the direct supervision of the Pope. The Basilica of St. John Lateran was also the seat of the bishop of Rome.[8] Traditionally, pilgrims were expected to visit all four basilicas, and San Lorenzo fuori le mura, Santa Croce in Gerusalemme, and San Sebastiano fuori le mura which constituted the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome. In the Great Jubilee in 2000, the seventh church was instead Santuario della Madonna del Divino Amore as appointed by Pope John Paul II.

Churches by rione

Basilica of San Clemente
San Giovanni Laterano
Santa Pudenziana
Interior of Santo Stefano al Monte Celio
Santi Apostoli, Rome
Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
Santa Susanna
San Lorenzo in Lucina
San Girolamo dei Croati
Santa Maria dei Miracoli and Santa Maria in Montesanto
Trinità dei Monti
San Giovanni dei Fiorentini
Santa Maria della Pace
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Oratorio dei Filippini and Santa Maria in Vallicella
Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini
Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza
Interior of Santa Maria ad Martyres (Pantheon)
Santa Francesca Romana
Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Santa Sabina
Santa Cecilia in Trastevere
Santa Maira in Trastevere
Santa Maria Maggiore
Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri
Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio
Santi Quattro Coronati
San Saba
Sacro Cuore del Suffragio
San Lorenzo fuori le mura
San Filippo Neri in Eurosia
San Paolo fuori le mura
Interior of Nostra Signora de la Salette
Interior of Santa Costanza
San Sebastiano fuori le mura
Jubilee Church
Santi Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense
Santa Maria Regina Pacis a Ostia Lido
Santa Maria Madre del Redentore
Santuario di Nostra Signora di Tatima a San Vittorino
San Giuliano Martire
San Pietro in Vaticano

Churches in italics have no structural remains.

R. I Monti

R. II Trevi

R. III Colonna

R. IV Campo Marzio

R. V Ponte

R. VI Parione

R. VII Regola

R. VIII Sant'Eustachio

R. IX Pigna

R. X Campitelli

R. XI Sant'Angelo

R. XII Ripa

R. XIII Trastevere

R. XIV Borgo

R. XV Esquilino

R. XVI Ludovisi

R. XVII Sallustiano

R. XVIII Castro Pretorio

R. XIX Celio

R. XX Testaccio

R. XXI San Saba

R. XXII Prati

  • Beata Vergine Maria del Carmine
  • Sacro Cuore del Suffragio
  • San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello
  • San Giuseppe ai Prati
  • Santa Maria Assunta delle Suore di San Giovanni Battista
  • Santa Maria del Rosario in Prati
  • Cappella di Santa Maria Immacolata dell'Istituto Scolastico Nazareth
  • Tempio valdese di piazza Cavour

Churches by quartieri

Q. I Flaminio

Q. II Parioli

Q. III Pinciano

Q. IV Salario

Q. V Nomentano

Q. VI Tiburtino

Q. VII Prenestino-Labicano

Q. VIII Tuscolano

Q. IX Appio-Latino

Q. X Ostiense

Q. XI Portuense

Q. XII Gianicolense

Q. XIII Aurelio

Q. XIV Trionfale

Q. XV Della Vittoria

Q. XVI Monte Sacro

Q. XVII Trieste

Q. XVIII Tor di Quinto

Q. XIX Prenestino-Centocelle

Q. XX Ardeatino

Q. XXI Pietralata

Q. XXII Collatino

  • Chiesa di Sant'Agapito
  • Chiesa di Gesù di Nazareth
  • San Giovanni Battista in Collatino
  • San Giuseppe Artigiano
  • Santa Maria Addolorata
  • Santa Maria del Soccorso, Rome
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria della Visitazione

Q. XXIII Alessandrino

  • Chiesa dell'Ascensione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
  • Jubilee Church
  • San Francesco di Sales
  • Chiesa di San Giustino
  • San Tommaso d'Aquino

Q. XXIV Don Bosco

Q. XXV Appio Claudio

Q. XXVI Appio-Pignatelli

  • San Tarcisio

Q. XXVII Primavalle

Q. XXVIII Monte Sacro Alto

Q. XXIX Ponte Mammolo

  • Chiesa del Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Ponte Mammolo
  • Chiesa di San Gelasio I papa
  • San Liborio
  • Chiesa di Santa Maria Maddalena de' Pazzi

Q. XXX San Basilio

  • Chiesa di San Basilio
  • Chiesa di San Cleto

Q. XXXI Giuliano-Dalmata

Q. XXXII Europa

Q. XXXIII Lido di Ostia Ponente

Q. XXXIV Lido di Ostia Levante

Q. XXXV Lido di Castel Fusano

  • None

Churches in the suburban zones

Churches in Vatican City

See also

References

Citations

  1. ↑ Loomis, Louise Ropes (1916). The Book of the Popes (Liber Pontificalis) I, to the Pontificate of Gregory I. Records of Civilization: Sources and Studies. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 38. "...quasi dioecesis, propter baptismum et paenitentiam multorum qui convertebantur ex paganis et propter sepulturas martyrum ('like a diocese, for the sake of baptism and penance of many who were being converted from paganism and for the sake of burials of martyrs')." Mommsen, Theodor (1898). Gestorum pontificum romanorum. Monumenta Germaniae Historica. Berlin: Apud Weidmannos. p. 43.
  2. ↑ "Rome of the Emperors, Rome of the Popes" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 December 2021.
  3. ↑ Kuttner, pp. 148-149, attributes the change from 25 to 28 to the eighth century, following Klewitz, pp. 120, 151, 156-157.
  4. ↑ Kuttner, p. 150.
  5. ↑ The title 'cardinal', however, is not attested in authentic papal documents until the reign of Pope Stephen III (768-772): Kuttner, p. 149.
  6. ↑ Bryan (28 April 2017). "E02744: The decrees (in Latin) of a synod". Figshare. doi:10.25446/oxford.13826261.v1. Archived from the original on 23 December 2021. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  7. ↑ Kuttner, p. 152.
  8. ↑ "Rome Churches: Basilicas, Temples and Holy Places". www.romesightseeing.net. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

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