Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino

Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino
Saint Anselm on the Aventine
Badia Sant'Anselmo
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41°52′56.3″N 12°28′41.0″E / 41.882306°N 12.478056°E / 41.882306; 12.478056
Location	Piazza dei Cavalieri di Malta, 5
Country	Italy
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Religious order	Benedictines
History
Founded	4 January 1888 (1888-01-04)
Founder(s)	Pope Leo XIII
Dedicated	April 19, 1893
Consecrated	November 11, 1900
Relics held	Saint Alexander of Rome; Elena Cornaro Piscopia
Architecture
Architect(s)	Hildebrand de Hemptinne and Fidelis von Stotzingen
Architectural type	Church
Style	Romanesque Revival
Years built	8
Groundbreaking	1892
Completed	1900
Construction cost	2,500,000 lire
Specifications
Other dimensions	43,000 square meter property
Number of spires	2
Administration
Diocese	Rome
Clergy
Cardinal protector	Cardinal Lorenzo Baldisseri
Abbot	Abbot Primate Gregory Polan, O.S.B.
Prior	Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B.
Subprior	Rev. Fernando Luis Rivas, O.S.B.
Rector	College: Rev. Mauritius Wilde, O.S.B.; University: Rev. Bernhard A. Eckerstorfer, O.S.B.; Church: Rev. Doroteo Toić, O.S.B.

Sant'Anselmo all'Aventino (English: Saint Anselm on the Aventine) is a complex located on the Piazza Cavalieri di Malta Square on the Aventine Hill in Rome's Ripa rione and overseen by the Benedictine Confederation and the Abbot Primate.^[1] The Sant'Anselmo complex, also known as the "Primatial Abbey of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Badia Sant'Anselmo) because it is the residence of the Abbot Primate, consists of: an ecclesiastical residential college known as the "College of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Collegio Sant'Anselmo); a university known as the "Pontifical Athenaeum of Saint Anselm" (Italian: Pontificio Ateneo Sant’Anselmo); the "Church of Sant'Anselmo" (Italian: Chiesa Sant'Anselmo); and the curial headquarters of the "Benedictine Confederation" and Abbot Primate. The complex and associated institutions are named in honor of the Benedictine monk Saint Anselm of Canterbury.