Location Rome, Italy Ecclesiastical or organizational status Minor basilica Groundbreaking 1884 Opened 1888 Year consecrated 1888 Architect Luca Carimini | Affiliation Roman Catholic Website Official website Completed 1888 Leadership Cláudio Hummes Architectural type Church | |
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Similar Santa Chiara a Vigna Cla, Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonv, Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, Santa Croce in Via Flami, Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina | ||
For the basilica church of the same name in Padua, see Basilica of Saint Anthony of Padua
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The Church of Saint Anthony of Padua on Via Merulana (Italian: Sant'Antonio da Padova all'Esquilino, Latin: S. Antonii Patavini de Urbe) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, built for the Order of Friars Minor, who needed a new home after they were moved from Santa Maria in Aracoelito allow the construction of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II.
The church was elevated to minor basilica status in 1931.
On the 12 March 1960 Pope John XXIII granted it a titular church as a seat for Cardinals. The present Cardinal Priest of the Titulus San Antonii Patavini de Urbe is Cláudio Hummes.
Architecture
Two staircases provide access to the gantry of the church, where stands a statue of Saint Anthony of Padua, holding the Christ Child. Inside, the church is constructed of three naves, divided by two columns of pillars made of pink marble.