Location Rome, Italy Ecclesiastical or organizational status Titular church Opened 1961 Leadership Gabriel Zubeir Wako Architectural type Church | Affiliation Roman Catholic Website Official website Phone +39 06 451 1688 Year consecrated 1961 | |
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Address Via Achille Benedetti, 11, 00157 Roma, Italy Similar Santa Chiara a Vigna Cla, Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonv, San Liborio, Santi Gioacchino e Anna al, Santi Giovanni Evangelis | ||
The Church of Saint Athanasius on Via Tiburtina (Italian: Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina, Latin: S. Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, built as a parish church. It was consecrated 11 March 1961 by Cardinal Clemente Micara. On 28 June 1991 Pope John Paul II granted it a titular church as a seat for Cardinals.
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The present Cardinal Priest of the Titulus San Athanasii ad viam Tiburtinam is Gabriel Zubeir Wako.
Architecture
The structure of the church is in a Greek Cross, with four large windows, each representing respectively the Eucharistic symbols of the body and blood, Saint Athanasius, and the Holy Spirit. The main altar is semicircular, and of granite with the Last Supper in the background. Left of the altar is a picture of the eighteenth century painting of the Assumption, and on the right is a baptismal font with travertine dome, closed by a cover bronze statue of John the Baptist.