San Girolamo a Corviale

St. Jerome in Corviale
San Girolamo a Corviale (in Italian) Sancti Hieronymi in Corviale (in Latin)
Facade
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41°51′09″N 12°25′20″E
Location	Via dei Buonvisi 3, Rome
Country	Italy
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Tradition	Roman Rite
History
Status	Titular church
Dedication	Jerome
Architecture
Architect(s)	Francesco Fornari
Architectural type	Church
Style	Modernist
Administration
District	Lazio
Province	Rome
Clergy
Cardinal protector	Luis Hector Villalba

The Church of San Girolamo in Corviale is a church in Rome, in the suburb Gianicolense, by way of Buonvisi.

It was built in the twentieth century by the architect Francesco Fornari. It contains an important and venerated icon of the Crucifixion, with the depiction of Christ on the cross and to the sides the figures of Mary and John, typical of Eastern Christian iconography is the presence at the foot of the cross of a miniature cave and the Adam's skull.

The church is home parish, erected March 9, 1960, with the decree of the Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara Quotidianis curis.

Pope Francis created it as a cardinal title of San Girolamo a Corviale and Luis Hector Villalba as its first titular.

List of Cardinal Protectors

• Luis Hector Villalba 14 February 2014 – present

External links

• San Girolamo a Corviale ^{[self-published]}