Santa Maria Stella Maris, also called Santa Maria Stella Maris a Mostacciano or Santa Maria Stella Maris a Castel Palocco, is a 20th-century parochial church and titular church in Lido di Ostia, dedicated to Our Lady, Star of the Sea.[1][2]
History
Santa Maria Stella Maris was built in 1977 to a modernist design by Ennio Canino[3][4]
Pope John Paul II visited in 1999.[5]
On 7 December 2024, Pope Francis made it a titular church to be held by a cardinal-priest.[6][7]
- Ladislav Nemet (2024 – present)[8]
References
- 1."Ceremony: the Wedding". www.8linux.org.
- 2."Ente | DIOCESI DI ROMA".
- 3."Santa Maria Stella Maris a Casal Palocco". info.roma.it.
- 4.Rendina, C. (2003). Guida insolita del Tevere: il fiume di Roma : il corso del fiume dalle sorgenti alla foce tra natura e archeologia, storia e urbanistica : il bacino fluviale, la flora, la fauna, gli affluenti.... Italy: Newton & Compton.
- 5."28 February 1999, Visit to St Mary Star of the Sea Parish in Castel Fusano on the Ostia seashore | John Paul II". www.vatican.va.
- 6."Santa Maria Stella Maris (Cardinal Titular Church) [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org.
- 7."Vice President – Consiglio Conferenze Episcopali Europee". www.ccee.eu.
- 8."Ladislav Cardinal Nemet [Catholic-Hierarchy]". www.catholic-hierarchy.org.