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San Matteo in Via Merulana was a
titular church in Rome, dedicated to the Apostle and
Evangelist Matthew , for
cardinal priests (the intermediary class).
History
San Matteo was first established as a titular church in 112 by
Pope Alexander I , then suppressed in 600 by
Pope Gregory I . (No incumbents known for that period).
It was revived in 1517 by
Pope Leo X . The church was crumbling by 1775 and the title was not awarded between 1776 and 1801, when it was finally suppressed and transferred to
Santa Maria della Vittoria .
The church once housed the famed Marian icon of
Our Mother of Perpetual Help , now under the custody of the
Redemptorist Order , later supplemented with another Marian image.
List of titular Cardinal-priests
(medieval names also unavailable)
Andrea Corsini (1769.09.11 – 1776.07.15), Promoted
Cardinal-Bishop of
Sabina
Alberico Archinto (May 24, 1756 – September 20, 1756), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Lorenzo in Damaso
Luigi Mattei (December 10, 1753 – April 5, 1756), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
Fortunato Tamburini ,
Benedictine Order (O.S.B.) (September 23, 1743 – April 9, 1753), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Callisto
Vincenzo Bichi (August 29, 1740 – May 20, 1743), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Silvestro in Capite
Giambattista Altieri Jr. (November 20, 1724 – January 26, 1739), Promoted
Cardinal-Bishop of
Palestrina
Nicola Grimaldi (June 8, 1716 – October 25, 1717)
Francesco Nerli (iuniore) (September 25, 1673 – November 17, 1704), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Lorenzo in Lucina
Francesco Maria Mancini (May 14, 1670 – June 29, 1672)
Francesco Sacrati (May 17, 1621 – September 6, 1623)
Francesco Sforza (November 13, 1617 – March 5, 1618), Promoted
Cardinal-Bishop of
Albano
Roberto Ubaldini (April 3, 1617 – July 3, 1617), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Pudenziana
Antonio Zapata y Cisneros (June 20, 1605 – June 5, 1606), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Croce in Gerusalemme
Roberto Bellarmino ,
Jesuits S.J. (June 1, 1605 – August 31, 1621), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Prassede
Giovanni Delfino (November 24, 1604 – June 1, 1605), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Marco
Giovanni Evangelista Pallotta (January 15, 1588 – June 16, 1603), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Lorenzo in Lucina
Decio Azzolini (seniore) (January 15, 1586 – October 9, 1587)
Jérôme Souchier ,
Cistercians (O. Cist.) (January 24, 1569 – November 10, 1571)
Gianbernardino Scotti ,
C.R. (January 13, 1556 – December 11, 1568)
Girolamo Dandini (December 4, 1551 – October 25, 1555), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Marcello (al Corso)
Bartolomé de la Cueva y Toledo (May 5, 1546 – December 4, 1551), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Bartolomeo all'Isola
Charles de Hémard de Denonville (January 15, 1537 – August 23, 1540)
Giles of Viterbo ,
Order of St. Augustine (O.E.S.A.) (July 10, 1517 – May 9, 1530), Appointed Cardinal-Priest of
San Marcello (al Corso)
Cristoforo Numai ,
Franciscans (
O.F.M. Obs. ) (July 6, 1517 – July 10, 1517), Cardinal-Priest of
Santa Maria in Ara Coeli
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