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Sant'Ignazio, Rome

Sant'Ignazio Church
Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at the Campus Martius
Italian: Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio
Latin: Ecclesia Sancti Ignatii a Loyola in Campo Martio
Sant'Ignazio Church, Rome.jpg
Façade of Sant'Ignazio
Sant'Ignazio Church is located in Rome
Sant'Ignazio Church
Sant'Ignazio Church
41°53′56.4″N 12°28′47.2″E / 41.899000°N 12.479778°E / 41.899000; 12.479778Coordinates: 41°53′56.4″N 12°28′47.2″E / 41.899000°N 12.479778°E / 41.899000; 12.479778
Location Via del Caravita, 8A
Rome
Country Italy
Denomination Roman Catholic
Website santignazio.gesuiti.it
History
Consecrated 1722
Architecture
Status Parish church and titular church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Orazio Grassi, S.J.
Style Mannerist
Baroque (façade)
Groundbreaking 1626-08-02
Completed 1650
Specifications
Length 90 metres (300 ft)
Width 50 metres (160 ft)
Nave width 25 metres (82 ft)
Other dimensions Façade direction: N
Number of domes 1
Administration
Diocese Rome
External video
Pozzo's Glorification of Saint Ignatius, Smarthistory

The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius (Italian: Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio, Latin: Ecclesia Santi Ignatii a Loyola in Campo Martio) is a Roman Catholic titular church, of deaconry rank, dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, located in Rome, Italy. Built in Baroque style between 1626 and 1650, the church functioned originally as the chapel of the adjacent Roman College, that moved in 1584 to a new larger building and was renamed the Pontifical Gregorian University. The most recent Cardinal of the Titulus S. Ignatii de Loyola in Campo Martio was Cardinal Roberto Tucci, S.J.; he had been its Cardinal Deacon until he became its Cardinal Priest (i.e., opted for the order of cardinal priests, with this church being elevated "pro hac vice" to title).

The Collegio Romano opened very humbly in 1551, with an inscription over the door summing up its simple purpose: "School of Grammar, Humanity, and Christian Doctrine. Free". Plagued by financial problems in the early years, the Collegio Romano had various provisional centres. In 1560, Vittoria della Tolfa,Marchesa della Valle, donated her family isola, an entire city block and its existing buildings, to the Society of Jesus in memory of her late husband the Marchese della Guardia Camillo Orsini, founding the Collegio Romano. She had previously intended to donate it to the Poor Clares for the founding of a monastery. The nuns had already started to build what had been intended to become the Church of Santa Maria della Nunziata, erected on the spot where the Temple of Isis had stood.


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