Location Rome, Italy District Lazio Ecclesiastical or organizational status Titular church Opened 1940 Leadership John Ribat Architectural type Church | Affiliation Roman Catholic Province Rome Groundbreaking 1938 Phone +39 06 788 7801 Year consecrated 1965 Architect Tullio Rossi | |
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Address Via Cesare Baronio, 00179 Roma, Italy Similar Santi Fabiano e Venanzio, Santa Teresa - Rome, Santa Galla, Santi Giovanni Evangelis, Santa Maria delle Grazie all | ||
San Giovanni Battista de Rossi is a church on via Cesare Baronio in the quartiere Appio-Latino of Rome, Italy. It is dedicated to Saint John Baptist de Rossi (22 February 1698 – 23 May 1764), who was canonized in 1881 by Pope Leo XIII.
This church building was commissioned by Pope Pius XII in 1938 from the architect Tullio Rossi. The Second World War delayed construction and the church was not consecrated until 22 May 1965. St John Baptist de Rossi's relics were translated here from the church of Santissima Trinità dei Pellegrini on 23 May 1965, his feast day, with Cardinal Luigi Traglia, the Vicar General of Rome, presiding.
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Nearly four years later, on 30 April 1969, Pope Paul VI made it a titular church.
The church itself is served by diocesan clergy.