Churches of Rome

There are more than 900 churches in Rome, which makes it the city with the largest number of churches in the world.^[1] Almost all of these are Catholic.

The first churches of Rome originated in places where Christians met. They were divided into three main categories:^[2]

the houses of private Roman citizens (people who hosted the meetings of Christians – also known as oratoria, oracula)
the deaconries (places where charity distributions were given to the poor and placed under the control of a deacon; the greatest deaconries had many deacons, and one of them was elected^{[citation needed]} archdeacon)
other houses holding a titulus (known as domus ecclesia)

^ Clarke, Stuardt. "The Churches of Rome: Major and Minor". Stuardt Clarkes Rome. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.
^ "Three of World's Major Faiths, Sharing a Belief in One God, Are Rooted in Mideast; GROUPS DISAGREE ON REVEALED LAW; Christianity and Islam Stem From the Old‐Testament Tradition of Judaism". The New York Times. 5 January 1964. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

[1] Clarke, Stuardt. "The Churches of Rome: Major and Minor". Stuardt Clarkes Rome. Archived from the original on 8 February 2012. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

[2] "Three of World's Major Faiths, Sharing a Belief in One God, Are Rooted in Mideast; GROUPS DISAGREE ON REVEALED LAW; Christianity and Islam Stem From the Old‐Testament Tradition of Judaism". The New York Times. 5 January 1964. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 22 December 2021.

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