National Churches (Rome)
National churches in Rome emerged from charitable institutions of the Catholic Church that were founded during the Middle Ages and were affiliated with Roman churches. These facilities included hospitals, hostels, and others for pilgrims of a certain nationality. They were generally run by religious orders or spiritual brotherhoods and were supported by donations and alms. Often they were also associated with national scholae (predecessors of the Roman seminaries) at which the clergy were trained.
Until the unification of Italy in 1870, the Italian city-states also had national churches (which are now referred to as "regional churches"). Many of these organizations were expropriated by the fraternity suppression legislation in 1873. Through various agreements in the following decades and finally in the Lateran Treaties , many of the assets of the national churches were returned to the Catholic Church .
Italian national or regional churches in Rome
- Abruzzo : Santa Maria Maddalena in Campo Marzio
- Apulia : San Nicola in Carcere
- Basilicata : San Nicola in Carcere
- Calabria : San Francesco di Paola ai Monti
- Campania : Santo Spirito dei Napoletani
- Emilia-Romagna : Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio dei Bolognesi
- Lazio :
- Liguria : San Giovanni Battista dei Genovesi
- Lombardy :
- Brands : San Salvatore in Lauro
- Campania : Santo Spirito dei Napoletani
- Piedmont : Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
- Sardinia :
- Sicily : Santa Maria al Odigitria Tritone
- Tuscany :
- Umbria :
- Veneto : Basilica di San Marco Evangelista al Campidoglio
National or regional churches of former Italian territories
- Nice : Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
- Duchy of Savoy : Santissimo Sudario all'Argentina
- Julian Dalmatia : San Marco Evangelista in Agro Laurentino
- Corsica : San Crisogono (formerly)
National churches
Africa
Asia
North and South America
- Argentina :
- Ecuador :
- Canada :
- Mexico :
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USA :
- San Patrizio a Villa Ludovisi (until 2017 Santa Susanna )
Europe
- Belgium :
- Germany :
- France
- Greece :
- Great Britain :
- Ireland :
- Croatia :
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Netherlands :
- Santi Michele e Magno (since 1992)
- Poland :
- Portugal :
- Romania :
- Russia :
- Sweden :
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Spain :
- Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore (1506–1807)
- Santa Maria degli Spagnoli in Monserrato (since 1807)
- Hungary :
- Ukraine :
middle East
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Armenia
- Santa Maria Egiziaca (1563-1832; profane)
- San Biagio della Pagnotta (1832-1883)
- San Nicola da Tolentino agli Orti Sallustiani (since 1883)
- Lebanon :
- Syria :
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, Rome, 1979
- L'Italia - 2nd Roma, Touring Club Italiano, Milan, 2004
Web links
- Entry on gcatholic.org (English)
- Entry on romeartlover.it (English)
- Entry on romanchurches.wikia.com (English)