San Pier Damiani

Modern titular diaconate church in the suburb of Acilia Sud, consecrated 2002

The church of San Pier Damiani ai Monti di San Paolo stands in the south-western suburb of Acilia Sud in Rome and was consecrated in 2002. It is dedicated to the medieval church reformer Peter Damian, an 11th-century cardinal and Doctor of the Church who championed stricter monastic discipline. The building combines its role as a parish church with the canonical status of a titular diaconate – an honorary link to a cardinal of the Roman Curia. Architecturally it belongs to the wave of modern Roman community churches that have shaped the city periphery since the 1980s.