Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus
| Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus | |
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| Real Colegiata de San Hipólito | |
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| Basic information | |
| Location | Córdoba, Spain |
| Geographic coordinates | 37°53′09″N 4°46′59″W / 37.88583333333333°N 4.783055555555555°WCoordinates: 37°53′09″N 4°46′59″W / 37.88583333333333°N 4.783055555555555°W |
| Affiliation | Roman Catholic |
| Region | Andalusia |
| Country | Spain |
| Patron | Saint Hyppolytus of Rome |
| Website | www |
| Architectural description | |
| Architectural style | Gothic and Baroque |
| Groundbreaking | 1343 |
| Completed | 1736 |
The Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus (Real Colegiata de San Hipólito in Spanish) is a Catholic Church in Córdoba, (Spain) founded in 1343 at the initiative of King Alfonso XI of Castile. The church, which was later granted in perpetuity to the Society of Jesus, contains the tombs of King Ferdinand IV and his son Alfonso XI.
The Royal Collegiate Church of Saint Hippolytus was part of a monastery founded by King Alfonso XI of Castile in 1343 to commemorate the victory of the Christian troops in the Battle of Salado, fought in 1340. The king wanted it to be his final resting place and also that of his father Ferdinand IV who had died in 1312 and had been interred in the Mosque–Cathedral of Córdoba.
On 1 August 1347, Pope Clement VI issued a papal bull raising the rank of the church to that of a collegiate church so that it could be used to celebrate, with due solemnity, the Divine Offices in memory of kings. King Alfonso's devotion to Saint Hippolytus is reflected in a document issued on 2 October in Seville by which he ordered the clergy in Jerez de la Frontera and Sanlúcar de Barrameda to celebrate anniversary masses for the souls of his ancestors on different days, particularly on the feast day of Saint Hippolytus which coincided with the day on which the king had been born.
Work on the construction of the church progressed very slowly and only the apse and the crossing had been completed during the reigns of Alfonso XI and of his son and successor, King Peter I. The rest of the building was not completed until the 18th-century when, in 1729, the construction of the church was resumed with the acquiescence of King Philip V of Spain. Seven years later, in 1736 the work had been completed although several other structures were built during the 18th and the 19th centuries.
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