San Teodoro, Rome

Antiquity The church is located at the northwest foot of the Palatine Hill along the ancient road between Rome's main forum and the Forum Boarium. It may have been erected over the ruins of the granaries of Agrippa Its apsis mosaic dates to the 6th century and shows Christ in a black robe with gold lati clavi, == Interior ==

At the back of the atrium, outside the church, is an ossuary with stacked skulls and bones, visible through a grille. The Capitoline Wolf was kept in this church until the 16th century. As a Greek Orthodox church, it now has an iconostasis, or icon screen, that separates the sanctuary from the main body of the church. == List of Titular Cardinals ==

• Benedict (January - September 972) - later Pope Benedict VI • Robert (around 1073 - 1099) • Bobone (1099 - around 1117) • Errico, O.S.B. (around 1117-?) • Gualtiero (1120- end 1121 or in all cases before 1125) • Ugo Hieramea (or Geremei) (1125 - around 1129) • Matteo (1129- about 1130) • Alberto Teodoli (1130 - around 1155) • Ardicio Rivoltella (1155-1186) • Ugo Geremei (1186 - about 1188) • Giovanni Malabranca (1188 - 1192) • Bobo of San Teodoro, 1193 - 1199 • Gregorio Crescenzi (1205 - 1230) • Vacant, 1230 - 1316 • Giovanni Gaetano Orsini (17 December 1316 - 27 August 1335) • Vacant, 1335 - 1468 • Teodoro Paleologo di Montferrato (27 April 1468 - 21 January 1484) • Vacant, 1484 - 1492 • Federico di Sanseverino (26 July 1492 - 1 May 1510, in commendation 1 May 1510 - 17 May 1511) • Alfonso Petrucci (17 May 1511 - 22 June 1517) • Francesco Pisani (22 October 1518 - 3 May 1527) • Niccolò Gaddi (3 May 1527 - 9 January 1545) • Andrea Cornaro (9 January 1545 - 27 June 1550) • Luigi Cornaro (4 December 1551 - 26 February 1561), titre pro illa vice 26 February 1561 - 21 June 1564) • Tolomeo Gallio, pro illa vice (15 May 1565 - 7 September 1565) • Stanislaus Hosius, pro illa vice (7 September 1565 - 10 February 1570) • Giulio Acquaviva of Aragon (6 September 1570 - 21 July 1574) • Deaconry suppressed (1587-1959) • William Theodore Heard (17 December 1959 - 18 May 1970); pro illa vice (18 May 1970 - 16 September 1973) • Vacant (1973-1979) • Ernesto Civardi (30 June 1979 - 28 November 1989) • Vacant (1989-1994) • Vincenzo Fagiolo (26 November 1994 - 22 September 2000) • Vacant (2000-2004) • Deaconry suppressed in 2004 ==See also==