San Girolamo dei Croati
San Girolamo dei Croati St. Jerome of the Croatians (in English) Sancti Hieronymi Croatorum (in Latin) | |
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Saint Jerome of the Croats | |
Religion | |
Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
District | Lazio |
Province | Rome |
Ecclesiastical or organizational status | Titular church |
Leadership | Josip Bozanic |
Year consecrated | 1587 |
Location | |
Location | ![]() |
Architecture | |
Type | Church |
Groundbreaking | 1585 |
Completed | 1587 |
Saint Jerome of the Croats is the national Catholic church of Croatia on Via Tomacelli in the Campus Martius of Rome. It is now a chapel of the Pontifical Croatian College of Saint Jerome in Rome and is only open to visitors by arrangement with the College.
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Name
It is also known as "St. Jerome of the Illyrians" (Italian: San Girolamo degli Illirici), and was formerly known as "St. Jerome of the Slavs" (Italian: San Girolamo degli Schiavoni).
History
It was first built in 1585-1587 for refugees from areas ruled by the Turks, and dedicated to St Jerome, who was from Dalmatia (former Roman "Illyricum").[1] The site had been given to them in 1453 (the year of the Fall of Constantinople) by Pope Nicholas V, for the construction of a hospice. It once faced the port built on the Tiber River, called the Porto di Ripetta.
List of Cardinal Protectors
- Prospero Santacroce 8 February 1566 - 12 April 1570
- Felice Peretti 9 June 1570 - 24 April 1585
- Alessandro Damasceni Peretti 14 June 1585 - 24 April 1585
- Pedro de Deza 20 April 1587 - 18 August 1597
- Simeone Tagliavia d'Aragonia 18 August 1587 - 21 February 1600
- Felice Centini 12 September 1612 - 12 August 1613
- Matteo Priuli 17 October 1616 - 23 June 1621
- Giovanni Delfino (camerlengo) 23 June 1621 - 23 August 1622
- Péter Pázmány 31 May 1632 - 19 March 1637
- Francesco Piretti di Montalvo 10 February 1657 - 4 May 1655
- Girolamo Buonvisi 23 April 1657 - 21 February 1677
- Giovanni Battista de Luca 22 September 1681 - 5 February 1683
- Lipót Kollonics 14 November 1689 - 20 January 1707
- Cornelio Bentivoglio 15 April 1720 - 25 June 1727
- Leandro Porzia 10 May 1728 - 20 September 1728
- Sinitaldo Doria 17 December 1731 - 2 December 1733
- Giacomoi Oddi 5 April 1745 - 12 January 1756
- Pietro Paolo de Conti 19 November 1759 - 25 March 1763
- Franziskus von Paula Herzan von Harras 11 December 1780 - 13 September 1782
- Francesco Carrara 11 April 1785 - 11 April 1791
- Cesare Brancadoro 20 July 1801 - 29 May 1820
- Gabriel della Genga Sermattei 21 November 1836 - 10 February 1861
- Antonio Maria Panebianco 30 September 1861 - 23 December 1861
- Giuseppe Andrea Bizzarri 19 March 1863 - 5 July 1875
- Luigi Serafini 20 March 1877 - 1 June 1888
- Serafino Vannutelli 11 February 1889 - 12 June 1893
- Lorinc Schlauch 21 May 1894 - 10 July 1902
- Andrea Aiuti 12 November 1903 - 28 April 1905
- Frantisek Salesky Bauer 2 December 1912 - 25 November 1915
- Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno 7 December 1916 - 16 September 1933
- Santiago Luis Copello 19 December 1935 - 14 December 1959
- Gustavo Testa 17 December 1959 - 28 February 1969
- Paolo Bertoli 5 March 1973 - 30 June 1979
- Franjo Kuharić 2 February 1983 - 11 March 2002
- Josip Bozanić 21 October 2003 – present
References
Sources
- Mariano Armellini, Le chiese di Roma dal secolo IV al XIX, Roma 1891, pp. 328–329
- Christian Hülsen, Le chiese di Roma nel Medio Evo, Firenze 1927, pp. 380–381
- F. Titi, Descrizione delle Pitture, Sculture e Architetture esposte in Roma: San Girolamo degli Illiri, Roma 1763, pp. 396–397