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Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi

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Location
  
Rome, Italy

District
  
Lazio

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
Titular church

Opened
  
14 June 1955

Year consecrated
  
1962

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Province
  
Rome

Groundbreaking
  
1950

Leadership
  
Patrick D'Rozario

Architectural type
  
Church

Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi

Address
  
Via Giovanni Battista de Rossi, 46, 00161 Roma, Italy

Architect
  
Bruno Maria Apollonj Ghetti

Similar
  
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Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e dei Santi Martiri Canadesi (Latin: Dominae Nostrae a Sanctissimo Sacramento et Sanctorum Martyrum Canadensium, Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament and the Canadian Martyrs) is the Roman Catholic national church of Canada, located at 46, Via Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Rome. It is also a titular church since February 1965, when Maurice Roy became its first Cardinal-Priest. It was built in 1955 by Bruno Apollini Ghetti, and made a parish church, served by the Congregation of Priests of the Most Holy Sacrament, by Pope Pius XII. Patrick D'Rozario, CSC is the incumbent cardinal-protector since 2016.

It contains a high altar designed by Francesco Nagni, ceramic decorations (including a fine crucifix) by Angelo Biancini, stained glass windows, mosaics and engraved glass confession door by Giovanni (Janos) Hajnal, and stained glass by Marcello Avenali.

Cardinal priests

Pope Paul VI established as titular church on 25 February 1965.

  • Maurice Roy, 25 February 1965 appointed–24 October 1985 died
  • Paul Grégoire, 28 June 1988 appointed–30 October 1993 died
  • Jean-Claude Turcotte, 26 November 1994 appointed–8 April 2015 died
  • Patrick D'Rozario, 19 November 2016 appointed- present
  • References

    Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi Wikipedia