Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia

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The Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Agony in Vitinia (Italian: Sacro Cuore di Gesù agonizzante a Vitinia, Latin: Sacratissimi Cordis Iesu in agoniam facti) is a Roman Catholic titular church in Rome, built as a parish church by decree of Cardinal Clemente Micara. On 30 April 1969 Pope Paul VI granted it a titular church as a seat for Cardinals. The actual suburb is called Vitinia, the first one westwards on the Via del Mare after the Circonvallazione Meridionale. The cardinalate title, created in 1969, is Sacro Cuore di Gesù Agonizzante a Vitinia, and the most recent titular is Jean-Paul Vesco. The dedication is to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Agony. It was designed by Ildo Avetta, and opened in 1955. The floor plan is basically rectangular with a shallowly curved apse, but the shape of the building is complex. The entrance façade is dominated by a white parabola, decorated with four rows of unusually shaped windows resembling stretched animal skins arranged vertically (the four curves making up each shape are also parabolic). These windows increase in overall size and proportional length from top row to bottom, and the rows number two, three, four and five. The parabola is bounded...

- Julio Rosales y Ras (30 April 1969 – 2 June 1983)

- Mario Luigi Ciappi (22 June 1987 – 23 April 1996)

- Telesphore Placidus Toppo (21 October 2003 – 4 October 2023)