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3 unusual facts about Titular church


Cardinals created by Nicholas IV

Pietro Colonna — cardinal-deacon of S. Eustachio; deposed on May 10, 1297 by Pope Boniface VIII; restored by Clement V on December 15, 1305 as cardinal-deacon without a title; then cardinal-deacon of S. Angelo (March 2, 1317), † January 7, 1326

Giovanni Battista Spínola

He was ordained a Catholic Priest in 1728, and made a Cardinal in 1733, given the titulus of San Cesareo in Palatio.

Titulus

Titulus, or Titular church, one of a group of Early Christian churches around the edges of Rome



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Raymond Leo Burke

On February 5, 2011, the memorial of St. Agatha, Cardinal Burke took canonical possession of his titular church in Rome, Sant'Agata dei Goti.

San Teodoro, Rome

It was rebuilt under Pope Nicholas V, had its long-held titular-church status suppressed by Pope Sixtus V, was renovated by Francesco Barberini in 1643, and rebuilt and given to the Society of the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Clement XI and his architect Carlo Fontana in 1703-1705.

Santa Maria Madre del Redentore a Tor Bella Monaca

The present Cardinal Priest of this Titular Church is Joseph Zen Ze-kiun, SDB (Traditional Chinese: 陳日君樞機), the Diocesan Bishop of the Diocese of Hong Kong in China.