Santa Caterina a Magnanapoli in Rome was begun by Carlo Maderno in 1608 with funding from Cardinal Scipione Borghese, but work halted in 1613. Giovanni Battista Soria designed the current church, begun in 1628. The chancel and two chapels were finished in 1631, the final portion began in 1636, Cardinal Alessandro Cesarini consecrated it in 1640 and the facade was done in 1641. Some early dates need citations.
The text names the style Baroque, while the infobox gives none. The church has a single nave with a barrel vault and three chapels on each side. The main altar relief, St Catherine in Ecstasy, is by Melchiorre Cafà, in white marble on a polychrome marble background. A tabernacle uses lapis lazuli, agate and gilded bronze.
Most of the convent was demolished in 1924, and a restoration followed in 1992. The Military Ordinariate, whose headquarters are adjacent, took over the church. The article gives no hours.
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