St. Catherine Russian Orthodox Church (Rome)
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The first Russian Orthodox shrine in Rome, Italy.
consecrated May 24, 2009.
The history of the St. Catherine church compound goes back to the 19th century, when a proposal was put forward for building an Orthodox church in the Italian capital. After the Italian authorities gave permission for the project and a land plot was bought for the future church, last Russian tsar Nicholas II ordered in 1913 that donations be collected throughout Russia for building the church. However, the 1917 Bolshevik revolution thwarted the plan.
In the 1990s, the Russian Foreign Ministry came up with an initiative to revive it. The idea received the blessing of then head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II. May 2004 saw the emergence of a fund for building the compound. The fund was headed by the present head of Russian Church, Patriarch Kirill, who then was Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and headed the Department for External Church Relations. The fund's members included ballet dancers Andris and Ilze Liyepa, soccer player Andrey Shevchenko, President of Vneshtorgbank (the present VTB) Andrey Kostin and Russian Ambassador to Italy Alexey Meshkov.
In December 2007, Metropolitan Kirill consecrated one of the churches construction sites on the compound, the church of St. Constantine and St. Helen.
consecrated May 24, 2009.
The history of the St. Catherine church compound goes back to the 19th century, when a proposal was put forward for building an Orthodox church in the Italian capital. After the Italian authorities gave permission for the project and a land plot was bought for the future church, last Russian tsar Nicholas II ordered in 1913 that donations be collected throughout Russia for building the church. However, the 1917 Bolshevik revolution thwarted the plan.
In the 1990s, the Russian Foreign Ministry came up with an initiative to revive it. The idea received the blessing of then head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II. May 2004 saw the emergence of a fund for building the compound. The fund was headed by the present head of Russian Church, Patriarch Kirill, who then was Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad and headed the Department for External Church Relations. The fund's members included ballet dancers Andris and Ilze Liyepa, soccer player Andrey Shevchenko, President of Vneshtorgbank (the present VTB) Andrey Kostin and Russian Ambassador to Italy Alexey Meshkov.
In December 2007, Metropolitan Kirill consecrated one of the churches construction sites on the compound, the church of St. Constantine and St. Helen.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 41°53'40"N 12°27'15"E
- St Nicholas Russian Orthodox Cathedral (Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas de Nice) 470 km
- Russian Cemetery 969 km
- Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral 1045 km
- Saint Trinity Cathedral and Russian Orthodox Cultural Centre 1108 km
- Saint Alexander Nevsky Cathedral 1109 km
- Saint-Joseph's Church 1204 km
- Hitler 1349 km
- Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin 1540 km
- Cathedral of Christ the Saviour 1545 km
- St.Elisabeth convent 1546 km
- Monte del Gallo quarter 0.2 km
- Pontifical North American College 0.5 km
- Gianicolo 0.8 km
- Borgo (rione of Rome) 1.1 km
- Trastevere 1.2 km
- Aurelio 1.2 km
- Villa Doria Pamphili 1.4 km
- business premis 1.4 km
- Prati 2.2 km
- Rome historical centre 2.4 km
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