Santa Silvia (Rome)
Santa Silvia (Latin: Sanctae Silviae ) is a titular church in Rome .
overview
The church was built from 1966 to 1968 according to a design by the architect Francesco Fornari and inaugurated by the Roman auxiliary bishop Filippo Pocci. The parish was founded by the decree Ubi primum serena by Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara on February 23, 1959.
On February 21, 2001, Pope John Paul II made it the title church of the Roman Catholic Church . The namesake is Saint Silvia , mother of Pope Gregory the Great, who died around the year 592. Her feast day and name day is November 3rd .
The design structure of the church is a Latin cross with a single nave, a transept and a semicircular presbytery . The dominant material is concrete and mosaic work in the apse .
The church is located on Viale Giuseppe Sirtori in the Roman quarter of Portuense .
Santa Silvia - entrance facade
Santa Silvia - interior shot with the chancel
Cardinal priest
- Jānis Pujats , since February 21, 2001
Web links
- Entry about Santa Silvia on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved July 18, 2016.
- Entry about Santa Silvia on gcatholic.org
- Website of the parish of Santa Silvia (it.)
Coordinates: 41 ° 51 ′ 21.6 " N , 12 ° 26 ′ 59" E