The Church of Saint Anthony of Padua on Via Merulana is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome

Rome

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, built for the Order of Friars Minor, who needed a new home after they were moved from Santa Maria in Aracoeli

Santa Maria in Aracoeli

The Basilica of St. Mary of the Altar of Heaven is a titular basilica in Rome, located on the highest summit of the Campidoglio. It is still the designated Church of the city council of Rome, which uses the ancient title of Senatus Populusque Romanus...

to allow the construction of the Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II. On the 12 March 1960 Pope John XXIII

Pope John XXIII

-Papal election:Following the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, Roncalli was elected Pope, to his great surprise. He had even arrived in the Vatican with a return train ticket to Venice. Many had considered Giovanni Battista Montini, Archbishop of Milan, a possible candidate, but, although archbishop...

 granted it a titular church as a seat for Cardinals

Cardinal (Catholicism)

A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official, usually an ordained bishop, and ecclesiastical prince of the Catholic Church. They are collectively known as the College of Cardinals, which as a body elects a new pope. The duties of the cardinals include attending the meetings of the College and...

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The present Cardinal Priest of the Titulus San Antonii Patavini de Urbe is Cláudio Hummes

Cláudio Hummes

Cláudio Hummes, OFM is a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia , having previously served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 1996 to 1998 and archbishop of São Paulo from 1998 to 2006...

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Architecture

Two staircases provide access to the gantry

Gantry

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 of the church, where stands a statue of Saint Anthony of Padua, holding the Christ Child. Inside, the church is constructed of three naves

Navès

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, divided by two columns of pillars made of pink marble.

List of Cardinal Priests

• Peter Doi
  Peter Doi
  Peter Tatsuo Doi was a Japanese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Tokyo from 1937 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1960.-Biography:...
  
   (28 March 1960 - 21 February 1970)
• António Ribeiro
  António Ribeiro
  Dom António II Ribeiro was a Portuguese Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, who was Patriarch of Lisbon from 1971 until his death in 1998....
  
   (5 March 1973 – 24 March 1998)
• Cláudio Hummes
  Cláudio Hummes
  Cláudio Hummes, OFM is a Brazilian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as prefect of the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia , having previously served as Archbishop of Fortaleza from 1996 to 1998 and archbishop of São Paulo from 1998 to 2006...
  
  (21 February 2001 - incumbent)