National churches in Rome

Charitable institutions attached to churches in Rome were founded right through the medieval period and included hospitals, hostels, and others providing assistance to pilgrims to Rome from a certain "nation", which thus became these nations' national churches in Rome. These institutions were generally organised as confraternities and funded through charity and legacies from rich benefactors belonging to that "nation". Often also they were connected to national "scholae" (ancestors of Rome's seminaries), where the clergymen were trained. The churches and their riches were a sign of the importance of their nation and of the prelates that supported them. Up to 1870 and Italian unification, these national churches also included churches of the Italian city states (now called "regional churches").

Many of these organizations, lacking a purpose by the 19th century, were expropriated through the 1873 legislation on the suppression of religious corporations. In the following decades, nevertheless, various accords – ending up in the Lateran Pacts – saw the national churches' assets returned to the Roman Catholic Church.

Italian regional churches in Rome

National churches of former Italian territories

National churches

Africa

Americas

Asia

Europe
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Middle East

Notes
  1. "Comunità ecuadoriana Chiesa di Santa Maria in Via" (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-08-14.
  2. "Chiesa S. Giovanni della Malva in Trastevere" (in Italian). Roma Multi Etnica.
  3. "San Giovanni della Malva in Trastevere" (in Italian). Minnistero del'Interno. Archived from the original on 2015-09-30.
  4. Schmidlin, J. (1913). "College and Church of the Anima (in Rome)" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company. |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  5. Les Pieux Etablissements De La France A Rome Et A Lorette(in French) Archived 2011-08-05 at WebCite
  6. Les églises Française de Rome (Official website) Archived 2009-02-03 at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Lietuvos kankinių koplyčia Romoje | Gabalėliai Lietuvos". global.truelithuania.com. Retrieved 2019-04-10.
  8. Dutch church San Michele dei Frisoni doing a roaring trade
  9. In Vatican City. Reserved for the Swiss Guards.
  10. June Hager, "The Armenian Catholic Community in Rome Archived 2017-06-03 at the Wayback Machine", Inside the Vatican, June 1999

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