Chiesa di San Leone I, Roma

Chiesa di San Leone I is a Catholic church on Via Prenestina in Rome’s Prenestino-Labicano district. Its façade combines brickwork, travertine portals, and sculpture, with a rose window set high in the wall. Giuseppe Zander designed the building, which was completed during the early nineteen fifties.

The parish was created in October nineteen fifty-two by decree of Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara, and the church has held the cardinalatial title of San Leone I since nineteen sixty-five. The dedication is to Pope Leo I, a pope of the fifth century. Inside, an apse mosaic depicts Leo’s meeting with Attila, while another mosaic on the triumphal arch presents an allegory of Catholic society. Pope John Paul the Second visited this church in December nineteen eighty-nine.