Sant'Ignazio, Rome

Sant'Ignazio Church
Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at the Campus Martius
Italian: Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio Latin: Ecclesia Sancti Ignatii a Loyola in Campo Martio
Façade of Sant'Ignazio
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41°53′56.4″N 12°28′47.2″E / 41.899000°N 12.479778°E / 41.899000; 12.479778
Location	Via del Caravita, 8A Rome
Country	Italy
Denomination	Catholic
Religious institute	Jesuits
Website	santignazio.gesuiti.it
History
Status	Parish church titular church regional church
Consecrated	1722
Relics held	Saint Aloysius Gonzaga Saint Robert Bellarmine Saint John Berchmans
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Orazio Grassi, S.J.
Style	Baroque
Groundbreaking	1626-08-02
Completed	1650
Specifications
Length	90 metres (300 ft)
Width	50 metres (160 ft)
Nave width	25 metres (82 ft)
Other dimensions	Façade direction: N
Number of domes	1
Administration
Diocese	Rome

The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola at Campus Martius (Italian: Chiesa di Sant'Ignazio di Loyola in Campo Marzio, Latin: Ecclesia Sancti Ignatii a Loyola in Campo Martio) is a Latin Catholic titular church, of deaconry rank, dedicated to Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, located in Rome, Italy. Built in Baroque style between 1626 and 1650, the church functioned originally as the chapel of the adjacent Roman College, which moved in 1584 to a new larger building and was renamed the Pontifical Gregorian University.^[1] It is one of the great 17th century preaching churches built by Counter-Reformation orders in the Centro Storico (the others being The Gesù, also of the Jesuits, San Carlo ai Catinari of the Barnabites, Sant'Andrea della Valle of the Theatines, and the Chiesa Nuova of the Oratorians).