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Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello titular church

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Location
  
Rome, Italy

Ecclesiastical or organizational status
  
Titular church

Opened
  
1997

Leadership
  
George Pell

Affiliation
  
Roman Catholic

Completed
  
1997

Phone
  
+39 06 721 7687

Architectural type
  
Church

Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello titular church

Website
  
Parrocchia Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello

Address
  
Piazza Salvatore Galgano, 100, 00173 Roma, Italy

Similar
  
Santi Gioacchino e Anna al, Santa Chiara a Vigna Cla, San Liborio, Sacro Cuore di Gesù ago, Santi Giovanni Evangelis

Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello is a recent Latin titular church in Rome, for Cardinal-priests, and remains a Roman parish church.

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Church

The Chiesa di Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello is dedicated to Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello, Italian founder of the Salesian Sisters.

It was built in 1977 as a parish church in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Lodi. Its address is Piazza Salvatore Galgano 100, Roma, Lazio 00173, at the Viale Bruno Pelizze, in East Rome's XXth prefecture.

It enjoyed a papal visit from Pope John Paul II on 14 December 1997.

The church was established as a new Cardinal Title on 21 February 2001.

Cardinal-protectors

(So far all Roman Rite Cardinal-priests)

  • Venezuelan Cardinal Ignacio Antonio Velasco García, Benedictine Order (S.D.B.) (2001.02.21 – 2003.07.06), while Metropolitan Archbishop of Caracas (Venezuela) (1995.05.27 – 2003.07.06)
  • Australian cardinal George Pell (created 2003.10.21 – ...) has been the Cardinal-Priest since 2004., while Metropolitan Archbishop of Sydney (Australia) (2001.03.26 – 2014.02.24), President of “Vox Clara” Committee (2002.04 – ...), Member of Council of Cardinals for the Study of Organisational and Economic Problems of the Apostolic See (2007.02.03 – 2014.02.24), Member of Council of Cardinals to assist in the governance of the Universal Church and to reform the Roman Curia (2013.04.13 – ...), President of Secretariat for the Economy (2014.02.24 – ...)

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