Location Rome, Italy District Lazio Ecclesiastical or organizational status Titular church Opened 1587 Year consecrated 1587 | Affiliation Roman Catholic Province Rome Groundbreaking 1585 Leadership Josip Bozanić Architectural type Church | |
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Similar Santi Giovanni Evangelis, Santa Chiara a Vigna Cla, San Patrizio, Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Me, Santi Gioacchino e Anna al | ||
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", and was formerly known as San Girolamo degli "Schiavoni", St Jerome of the Slavs: the name changed after Croatia gained independence from Yugoslavia.
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 "Illiricum"). 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.