List of titular churches


In the Catholic Church, a member of the clergy who is created a cardinal is assigned a titular church in Rome, Italy. These are churches in the city, under the Diocese of Rome, which serve as honorary designations for cardinals that symbolise their relationship to the diocese and to its bishop, the pope. According to the Code of Canon Law, a cardinal may assist the titular church through counsel or through patronage, though "he has no power of governance over it, and he should not for any reason interfere in matters concerning the administration of its good, or its discipline, or the service of the church".
There are two ranks of titular churches: titles and deaconries. A title is a titular church that is assigned to a cardinal priest, whereas a deaconry is normally assigned to a cardinal deacon. If a cardinal priest or a cardinal deacon is later appointed a cardinal bishop, he is typically transferred from his titular church to the vacant title of a suburbicarian diocese in the vicinity of Rome. Patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches who are created cardinal bishops are not assigned titles of suburbicarian dioceses.
A cardinal may request that he be transferred to another titular church in a consistory; in addition, when a cardinal deacon opts to become a cardinal priest, he may request either that his deaconry be elevated pro hac vice to a title or that he be transferred from his deaconry to a vacant title. Other churches in Rome can also be established as new titular churches. Occasionally, a titular church may be held in commendam by a cardinal who has been transferred to a different titular church or to a suburbicarian diocese.
there are 233 current titular churches, 165 of which are titles and 68 of which are deaconries. Additionally, there are 25 historical titular churches that have been suppressed and 7 suburbicarian dioceses. Currently, 20 titular churches are vacant. The statuses of 59 titular churches as basilicas are also indicated.

Location key

One-letter abbreviations prefixing the locations of many churches in the tables below denote their situation in a particular historical subdivision of Rome, in the wider Metropolitan City of Rome Capital. Outwards from the city's historic centre, the four subdivision types are generally arranged as follows, as depicted in the map:
Locations of suburbicarian dioceses are either in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital or in the neighbouring Province of Rieti, both provinces of the Italian region of Lazio.

Titles

there are 165 titles, 7 of which are vacant.
TitleLocationCardinalSince
Sant'Agnese fuori le mura
Camillo Ruini28.06.1991
Sant'Agostino
Jean-Pierre Ricard24.03.2006
Sant'Alberto Magno
Anthony Soter Fernandez19.11.2016
Santi Ambrogio e Carlo
Vacant 05.08.2017
Sant'Anastasia
Eugenio Dal Corso 05.10.2019
Sant'Andrea al Quirinale
Odilo Pedro Scherer24.11.2007
Sant'Andrea della Valle
Dieudonné Nzapalainga 19.11.2016
Sant'Andrea delle Fratte
Ennio Antonelli21.10.2003
Santi Andrea e Gregorio al Monte Celio
Francesco Montenegro14.02.2015
Sant'Angela Merici
Sigitas Tamkevičius 05.10.2019
Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Merulana
Cláudio Hummes 21.02.2001
Sant'Antonio da Padova in Via Tuscolana
Jean Zerbo28.06.2017
Sant'Antonio in Campo Marzio
Manuel José Macário do Nascimento Clemente14.02.2015
Santi Aquila e Priscilla
Juan de la Caridad García Rodríguez05.10.2019
Sant'Atanasio
Lucian Mureșan18.02.2012
Sant'Atanasio a Via Tiburtina
Gabriel Zubeir Wako21.10.2003
Santa Balbina
Péter Erdő21.10.2003
San Bartolomeo all'Isola
Blase Joseph Cupich19.11.2016
Beata Maria Vergine Addolorata a piazza Buenos Aires
Estanislao Esteban Karlic24.11.2007
Beata Vergine Maria del Monte Carmelo a Mostacciano
Anthony Olubunmi Okogie21.10.2003
San Bernardo alle Terme
George Alencherry18.02.2012

Joseph Coutts28.06.2018
Santi Bonifacio ed Alessio
Eusébio Oscar Scheid 21.10.2003
San Callisto
Willem Jacobus Eijk18.02.2012
San Camillo de Lellis
Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne21.02.2001
Santa Cecilia
Gualtiero Bassetti22.02.2014
Santa Chiara a Vigna Clara
Vinko Puljić26.11.1994
San Clemente
Adrianus Johannes Simonis25.05.1985
San Corbiniano
Reinhard Marx20.11.2010
San Crisogono
Andrew Yeom Soo-jung22.02.2014
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Juan José Omella Omella28.06.2017
Santa Croce in Via Flaminia
Sérgio da Rocha19.11.2016
Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia
Telesphore Placidus Toppo21.10.2003
Sacro Cuore di Maria
Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja 26.11.1994

Edoardo Menichelli14.02.2015
Santi XII Apostoli
Angelo Scola21.10.2003
Santa Dorotea
Javier Lozano Barragán12.06.2014
Sant'Egidio
Matteo Maria Zuppi05.10.2019
Sant'Emerenziana a Tor Fiorenza
Jean-Pierre Kutwa22.02.2014
Sant'Eusebio
Daniel Nicholas DiNardo24.11.2007
Santi Fabiano e Venanzio a Villa Fiorelli
Carlos Aguiar Retes19.11.2016
San Felice da Cantalice a Centocelle, suburbicarian rank '
Luis Antonio Gokim Tagle24.11.2012
San Francesco d'Assisi a Ripa Grande
Norberto Rivera Carrera21.02.1998
San Francesco d'Assisi ad Acilia
Wilfrid Fox Napier 21.02.2001
San Frumenzio ai Prati Fiscali
Alexandre José Maria dos Santos 28.06.1988
San Gabriele Arcangelo all'Acqua Traversa
Fridolin Ambongo Besungu 05.10.2019
San Gabriele dell'Addolorata
Júlio Duarte Langa14.02.2015
Santa Galla
Daniel Fernando Sturla Berhouet 14.02.2015
San Gerardo Maiella
Rubén Salazar Gómez24.11.2012
Gesù Divin Lavoratore
Christoph Schönborn 21.02.1998
Gesù Divin Maestro alla Pineta Sacchetti
Thomas Stafford Williams02.02.1983
San Giacomo in Augusta
Chibly Langlois22.02.2014
San Gioacchino ai Prati di Castello
Leopoldo José Brenes Solórzano22.02.2014
Santi Gioacchino ed Anna al Tuscolano
Toribio Ticona Porco28.06.2018
San Giovanni a Porta Latina
Vacant 12.05.2020
San Giovanni Battista de' Rossi
John Ribat 19.11.2016
San Giovanni Battista dei Fiorentini
Giuseppe Petrocchi28.06.2018
San Giovanni Crisostomo a Monte Sacro Alto
Jean-Claude Hollerich 05.10.2019
Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Jozef De Kesel14.02.2015
San Giovanni Evangelista a Spinaceto
Álvaro Leonel Ramazzini Imeri05.10.2019
Santi Giovanni Evangelista e Petronio
Baltazar Enrique Porras Cardozo19.11.2016
San Giovanni Maria Vianney
Rainer Maria Woelki18.02.2012
San Girolamo a Corviale
Luis Héctor Villalba14.02.2015
San Girolamo dei Croati
Josip Bozanić21.10.2003
San Giuseppe all'Aurelio
Gérald Cyprien Lacroix 22.02.2014
San Giuseppe da Copertino
José Luis Lacunza Maestrojuán 14.02.2015
San Giustino
Jean-Baptiste Phạm Minh Mẫn21.10.2003
Gran Madre di Dio
Angelo Bagnasco24.11.2007
San Gregorio VII
Baselios Cleemis Thottunkal24.11.2012
San Gregorio Barbarigo alle Tre Fontane
Désiré Tsarahazana28.06.2018
San Gregorio Magno alla Magliana Nuova
Geraldo Majella Agnelo21.02.2001
Immacolata al Tiburtino
Raymundo Damasceno Assis20.11.2010
Immacolata Concezione di Maria a Grottarossa
Henryk Roman Gulbinowicz25.05.1985
Sant'Ippolito
John Atcherley Dew14.02.2015
Sant'Ireneo a Centocelle
Charles Maung Bo 14.02.2015
San Leonardo da Porto Maurizio ad Acilia
Sebastian Koto Khoarai 19.11.2016
San Leone I
Cristóbal López Romero 05.10.2019
San Liborio
Peter Kodwo Appiah Turkson21.10.2003
San Lorenzo in Damaso
Antonio María Rouco Varela21.02.1998
San Lorenzo in Lucina
Albert Malcolm Ranjith Patabendige Don20.11.2010
San Lorenzo in Panisperna
Michael Michai Kitbunchu02.02.1983
San Luca a Via Prenestina
José Freire Falcão28.06.1988
Santa Lucia a Piazza d'Armi
Théodore-Adrien Sarr24.11.2007
San Luigi dei Francesi
André Vingt-Trois24.11.2007
San Luigi Maria Grignion de Montfort
Vacant 08.10.2019
Santi Marcellino e Pietro
Dominik Duka 18.02.2012
San Marcello
Giuseppe Betori18.02.2012
San Marco
Angelo De Donatis28.06.2018
San Marco in Agro Laurentino
Alexandre do Nascimento02.02.1983
Santa Maria Addolorata
Francis Xavier Kriengsak Kovithavanij14.02.2015
Santa Maria ai Monti
Jorge Liberato Urosa Savino24.03.2006
Santa Maria Consolatrice al Tiburtino
Philippe Nakellentuba Ouédraogo22.02.2014
Santa Maria degli Angeli
Anders Arborelius 28.06.2017
Santa Maria del Popolo
Stanisław Dziwisz24.03.2006
Santa Maria della Pace
Francisco Javier Errázuriz Ossa 21.02.2001
Santa Maria della Presentazione
Francisco Robles Ortega24.11.2007
Santa Maria della Salute a Primavalle
Kelvin Edward Felix22.02.2014
Santa Maria della Speranza
Óscar Andrés Rodríguez Maradiaga 21.02.2001
Santa Maria della Vittoria
Seán Patrick O'Malley 24.03.2006
Santa Maria delle Grazie a Via Trionfale
Joseph William Tobin 19.11.2016
Santa Maria Domenica Mazzarello
George Pell21.10.2003

Nicholas Cheong Jin-suk24.03.2006
Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Salvatore De Giorgi21.02.1998
Santa Maria in Monserrato degli Spagnoli
Carlos Amigo Vallejo 21.10.2003
Santa Maria in Traspontina, suburbicarian rank '
Marc Ouellet 21.10.2003
Santa Maria in Trastevere
Carlos Osoro Sierra19.11.2016
Santa Maria in Vallicella
Ricardo Blázquez Pérez14.02.2015
Santa Maria in Via
Raúl Eduardo Vela Chiriboga20.11.2010
Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca
Joseph Zen Ze-kiun 24.03.2006

Orani João Tempesta 22.02.2014
Santa Maria Nuova, held '
Angelo Sodano28.06.1991

Orlando Beltran Quevedo 22.02.2014

Francisco Álvarez Martínez21.02.2001

Laurent Monsengwo Pasinya20.11.2010
Santa Maria sopra Minerva
António Augusto dos Santos Marto28.06.2018

Christian Wiyghan Tumi28.06.1988
Natività di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo a Via Gallia
Audrys Juozas Bačkis21.02.2001
Santi Nereo ed Achilleo
Vacant 28.07.2018
Santissimo Nome di Maria in Via Latina
Gaudencio Borbon Rosales24.03.2006
Nostra Signora de La Salette
Polycarp Pengo21.02.1998
Nostra Signora del Santissimo Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi
Patrick D'Rozario 19.11.2016
Nostra Signora di Guadalupe a Monte Mario
Timothy Michael Dolan18.02.2012
Nostra Signora di Guadalupe e San Filippo Martire
Juan Sandoval Íñiguez26.11.1994
Sant'Onofrio
Vacant 09.12.2015
San Pancrazio
Antonio Cañizares Llovera24.03.2006

Soane Patita Paini Mafi14.02.2015

Oswald Gracias24.11.2007
San Patrizio
Thomas Christopher Collins18.02.2012
Santi Pietro e Paolo a Via Ostiense
Pedro Ricardo Barreto Jimeno 28.06.2018
San Pietro in Montorio
James Francis Stafford01.03.2008
San Pietro in Vincoli
Donald William Wuerl20.11.2010

Nicolás de Jesús López Rodríguez28.06.1991
San Policarpo
Alberto Suárez Inda14.02.2015
Santa Prassede
Paul Poupard29.01.1996
Preziosissimo Sangue di Nostro Signore Gesù Cristo
John Njue24.11.2007
Santa Prisca
Justin Francis Rigali21.10.2003

Henri Schwery28.06.1991
Santa Pudenziana
Thomas Aquino Manyo Maeda28.06.2018
Santi Quattro Coronati
Roger Michael Mahony28.06.1991
Santi Quirico e Giulitta
Seán Baptist Brady24.11.2007

Ricardo Ezzati Andrello 22.02.2014
Santissimo Redentore e Sant'Alfonso in Via Merulana
Vincent Gerard Nichols22.02.2014
Regina Apostolorum
John Tong Hon18.02.2012
San Roberto Bellarmino
Mario Aurelio Poli22.02.2014

Berhaneyesus Demerew Souraphiel 14.02.2015
Santa Sabina
Jozef Tomko29.01.1996

Gregorio Rosa Chávez28.06.2017

John Olorunfemi Onaiyekan24.11.2012
San Sebastiano alle Catacombe
Lluís Martínez Sistach24.11.2007
Santi Silvestro e Martino ai Monti
Kazimierz Nycz20.11.2010
San Silvestro in Capite
Louis-Marie Ling Mangkhanekhoun 28.06.2017

Jānis Pujats21.02.2001
Santi Simone e Giuda Taddeo a Torre Angela, suburbicarian rank '
Pietro Parolin22.02.2014
San Sisto
Marian Jaworski21.02.2001
Santa Sofia a Via Boccea
Vacant
Friedrich Wetter25.05.1985
Santa Susanna
Vacant 20.12.2017
Santa Teresa al Corso d'Italia
Maurice Piat 19.11.2016

Arlindo Gomes Furtado14.02.2015
San Tommaso Apostolo
Pierre Nguyễn Văn Nhơn14.02.2015

Pedro Rubiano Sáenz21.02.2001
Santissima Trinità al Monte Pincio
Philippe Barbarin21.10.2003

Emmanuel Wamala26.11.1994
Santi Vitale, Valeria, Gervasio e Protasio
Adam Joseph Maida26.11.1994

Deaconries

there are 68 deaconries, 13 of which are vacant.
DeaconryLocationCardinalSince
Sant'Agata de' Goti
Raymond Leo Burke20.11.2010
Sant'Agnese in Agone
Gerhard Ludwig Müller22.02.2014
Santi Angeli Custodi a Città Giardino, title '
Agostino Cacciavillan21.02.2001
Sant'Angelo in Pescheria
Vacant 05.06.2019

Domenico Calcagno18.02.2012
Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino
Lorenzo Baldisseri22.02.2014
Sant'Antonio di Padova a Circonvallazione Appia
Karl-Josef Rauber14.02.2015
Sant'Apollinare alle Terme Neroniane-Alessandrine
Vacant 05.07.2018

Vacant 29.08.2019
Santi Biagio e Carlo ai Catinari, suburbicarian rank '
Leonardo Sandri24.11.2007
San Cesareo in Palatio
Antonio Maria Vegliò18.02.2012
Santi Cosma e Damiano
Vacant 01.05.2020
Sacro Cuore di Cristo Re, title '
Stanisław Ryłko24.11.2007
Sacro Cuore di Gesù a Castro Pretorio
Giuseppe Versaldi18.02.2012
Dio Padre misericordioso, title '
Crescenzio Sepe21.02.2001
San Domenico di Guzman
Manuel Monteiro de Castro18.02.2012
Santi Domenico e Sisto
José Tolentino Calaça de Mendonça05.10.2019
Sant'Elena fuori Porta Prenestina
João Braz de Aviz18.02.2012
Sant'Eugenio, title '
Julián Herranz Casado21.10.2003
Sant'Eustachio, title '
Sergio Sebastiani21.02.2001

Vacant 22.04.2017
San Francesco di Paola ai Monti
Renato Raffaele Martino21.10.2003
, title '
Franc Rodé 24.03.2006
Gesù Buon Pastore alla Montagnola
Vacant
Robert Sarah20.11.2010
San Giovanni della Pigna, title '
Raffaele Farina 24.11.2007
San Girolamo della Carità a Via Giulia
Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot 05.10.2019
San Giuliano dei Fiamminghi
Walter Brandmüller20.11.2010

Kevin Joseph Farrell19.11.2016
San Giuseppe dei Falegnami
Francesco Coccopalmerio18.02.2012
, title '
Severino Poletto21.02.2001
Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio
Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer 28.06.2018
San Lino
Giovanni Angelo Becciu28.06.2018
San Lorenzo in Piscibus, title '
Paul Josef Cordes24.11.2007
Santa Lucia del Gonfalone
Aquilino Bocos Merino 28.06.2018
Santa Maria Ausiliatrice in Via Tuscolana
Vacant 13.07.2019
, title '
Albert Vanhoye 24.03.2006
Santa Maria della Scala
Ernest Simoni19.11.2016
Santa Maria delle Grazie alle Fornaci fuori Porta Cavalleggeri
Mario Zenari19.11.2016

Vacant
Vacant 26.06.1967
Santa Maria in Domnica
Vacant 26.09.2019
Santa Maria in Portico
Michael Louis Fitzgerald 05.10.2019
Santa Maria in Via Lata, title '
Edward Idris Cassidy28.06.1991
, title '
Giovanni Lajolo24.11.2007
, title '
Paolo Romeo20.11.2010

Michael Czerny 05.10.2019
San Nicola in Carcere
Vacant 17.07.2020
Santissimo Nome di Gesù, title '
Eduardo Martínez Somalo28.06.1988
Santissimo Nome di Maria al Foro Traiano
Vacant 18.05.2018
Santissimi Nomi di Gesù e Maria in Via Lata
Luigi De Magistris14.02.2015
Nostra Signora del Sacro Cuore
Kurt Koch20.11.2010
, suburbicarian rank '
Fernando Filoni18.02.2012
, title '
Walter Kasper21.02.2001
San Paolo alla Regola
Francesco Monterisi20.11.2010
San Paolo alle Tre Fontane
Mauro Piacenza20.11.2010
, title '
Agostino Vallini24.03.2006
San Pio V a Villa Carpegna
James Michael Harvey24.11.2012

Santos Abril y Castelló18.02.2012
San Saba, title '
Jorge Arturo Medina Estévez21.02.1998
San Salvatore in Lauro, title '
Angelo Comastri24.11.2007
San Sebastiano al Palatino
Edwin Frederick O'Brien18.02.2012
Santo Spirito in Sassia
Dominique Mamberti14.02.2015
Santi Urbano e Lorenzo a Prima Porta
Vacant 13.01.2017
Santi Vito, Modesto e Crescenzia
Giuseppe Bertello18.02.2012

Suppressed titular churches

There are 25 suppressed titular churches, 15 of which were titles and 10 of which were deaconries. All suppressed titular churches are extant and functional as regular Catholic churches, unless otherwise indicated.

Suppressed titles

Suppressed deaconries

Suburbicarian dioceses

There are seven suburbicarian dioceses, in the vicinity of Rome, the titles of which are assigned to the six cardinal bishops. These do not form part of the Diocese of Rome, but are separate dioceses that are its suffragans, with territory generally lying outside the city's boundaries. Suburbicarian dioceses are not titular churches per se, but are similar in function, in that they serve as honorary and titular assignments for cardinals. Since 1914, the title of [|Ostia] has been assigned ex officio to the dean of the College of Cardinals, in addition to that of his first suburbicarian diocese when appointed a cardinal bishop. The respective patriarchates of the three current cardinal bishops who are Eastern Catholic patriarchs are considered to be their titles.
The locations given in the table below are those of the respective diocesan cathedrals. there are no vacant titles of suburbicarian dioceses.
Suburbicarian dioceseLocationCardinalSince
Albano
Angelo Sodano10.01.1994
Frascati
Tarcisio Bertone 10.05.2008
Ostia
Giovanni Battista Re18.01.2020
Palestrina
José Saraiva Martins 24.02.2009
Porto–Santa Rufina
Beniamino Stella01.05.2020
Sabina–Poggio Mirteto
Giovanni Battista Re01.10.2002
Velletri–Segni
Francis Arinze25.04.2005