Chiesa e parrocchia di San Ponziano

The parish was established on 3 September 1960, with the decree of Cardinal Vicar Clemente Micara Paterna sollicitudine, and entrusted to the diocesan clergy of Rome, in the person of Fr Sisto Gualtieri, with the subsequent decree of 6 September.In the initial period, during the construction of the new church, a room - shop in viale Appio Claudio 322 was used for liturgical and catechetical activities, which was quite central because, at the time, the area concerned was not very large. At the end of 1961, the parish moved to the premises - garage in Via Festo Porzio 25.Building work began on the new church building on the edge of the Acquedotti park, in an area taken from that of the Assumption of Mary parish. The area was densely populated and there were about 8500 people at the time, as certified by a document of the General Secretariat of Statistics and Census Office, signed by the Extraordinary Commissioner.The land for the construction of the church was made available free of charge by the Counts Gerini - Torlonia, with a return for the donors in valorisation of the surrounding land, and the design of the church was entrusted to Arch. Ing. Giuseppe Nicolosi.