National churches in Rome

National churches in Rome

Charitable institutions attached to churches in Rome were founded right through the medieval period and included hospitals, hostels and others providing assistance to pilgrims to Rome from a certain "nation", which thus became these nations' national churches in Rome. These institutions were generally organised as confraternities and funded through charity and legacies from rich benefactors belonging to that "nation". Often also they were connected to national "scholae" (ancestors of Rome's seminaries), where the clergymen were trained. The churches and their riches were a sign of the importance of their nation and of the prelates that supported them. Up to 1870 and Italian unification, these national churches also included churches of the Italian city states (now called "regional churches").

A lot of these organizations, lacking a purpose by the 19th century, were expropriated through the 1873 legislation on the suppression of religious corporations. In the following decades, nevertheless, various accords - ending up in the Lateran Pacts - saw the national churches' assets returned to the Roman Catholic Church.

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Italian "National" or regional churches in Rome

  • Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio
  • Santa Maria in Ara Coeli (Rome)
  • Santissimo Nome di Gesù all'Argentina
  • Basilica dei Santi Ambrogio e Carlo al Corso
  • Santi Bartolomeo e Alessandro a Piazza Colonna (Bergamo)
  • Basilica di San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini (Florence)
  • San Giovanni Battista Decollato
  • Santa Croce e San Bonaventura alla Pilotta (Lucca)
  • Santa Caterina da Siena a Via Giulia (Siena)
  • Santi Benedetto e Scolastica (Norcia)
  • Santa Rita da Cascia alle Vergini
  • Veneto: Basilica di San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio

National churches of former Italian territories

  • Nice: Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
  • Savoy: Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
  • Giuliano-Dalmata: San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino
  • Corsica: San Crisogono (formerly)

National churches

Africa

  • Santo Stefano degli Abissini[1]
  • San Tommaso in Parione

Americas

Asia

Europe

  • Sant'Atanasio a Via del Babuino (Graeco-Byzantine rite)
  • San Basilio agli Orti Sallustiani (Graeco-Byzantine rite)
  • Santa Maria in Cosmedin (Graeco-Melchite rite)
  • San Teodoro al Palatino (Greek-Orthodox rite)
  • San Giovanni Battista dei Cavalieri di Rodi (Rodi)
  • Chiesa di San Stanislao alle Botteghe Oscure
  • Resurrezione di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
  • Santi Martino e Sebastiano degli Svizerri[6]
  • San Pellegrino in Vaticano[6]

Middle East

  • Lebanon: San Marone
  • Syria: Santa Maria della Concezione in Campo Marzio

Notes

  1. ^ In Vatican City.
  2. ^ a b  Schmidlin, J. (1913). "College and Church of the Anima (in Rome)". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. 
  3. ^ Les Pieux Etablissements De La France A Rome Et A Lorette(in French)
  4. ^ Les églises Française de Rome (Official website)
  5. ^ Dutch church San Michele dei Frisoni doing a roaring trade
  6. ^ a b In Vatican City. Reserved for the Swiss Guards.
  7. ^ June Hager, "The Armenian Catholic Community in Rome", Inside the Vatican, June 1999

Bibliography

  • Raffaella Giuliani, Chiese dei cattolici nel mondo, in AA.VV., Pellegrini a Roma, Comitato Centrale per il Grande Giubileo dell'Anno 2000, Mondadori, 1999
  • a cura di Carlo Sabatini, Le chiese nazionali a Roma, Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, Roma, 1979
  • L'Italia - 2. Roma, Touring Club Italiano, Milano, 2004

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