Churches of Rome
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There are more than 900 churches in Rome, which makes it the city with the largest number of churches in the world.[1] Almost all of these are Catholic.
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The first churches of Rome originated in places where Christians met. They were divided into three main categories:[2]
- the houses of private Roman citizens (people who hosted the meetings of Christians ā also known as oratoria, oracula)
- the deaconries (places where charity distributions were given to the poor and placed under the control of a deacon; the greatest deaconries had many deacons, and one of them was elected[citation needed] archdeacon)
- other houses holding a titulus (known as domus ecclesia)