Santa Maria in Traspontina

Santa Maria in Traspontina
Façade seen from Via della Conciliazione.
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41°54′10″N 12°27′44″E / 41.90278°N 12.46222°E / 41.90278; 12.46222
LocationBorgo Sant'Angelo 15, Rome
CountryItaly
DenominationCatholic Church
TraditionLatin Rite
Religious orderCarmelites
Websiteparrocchiatraspontina.it
History
StatusTitular church,
national church
DedicationMary, mother of Jesus
Architecture
Architect(s)Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi
Architectural typeChurch
StyleBaroque
Groundbreaking1566

The Church of Santa Maria del Carmelo in Traspontina (Saint Mary of Carmel Across the Bridge) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, run by the Carmelites. The bridge referred to is the Ponte Sant'Angelo. The church is on the Via della Conciliazione, the primary road of the Roman Rione of Borgo.

Pope Sixtus V designated the church as a cardinalatial titulus on 13 April 1587.[1] The current cardinal of Santa Maria in Traspontina is the former Archbishop of Quebec, Marc Ouellet, and is the Prefect of the Dicastery for Bishops of the Roman Curia. He was Cardinal Priest from 2003 to 2018, and continued there when co-opted to suburbicarian rank.

It is the national church for Danish Catholics.

  1. ^ David M. Cheney, Catholic-Hierarchy: Santa Maria in Transpontina. Retrieved: 2016-03-20.