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Palace of the Holy Office

Field	Value
name	Palace of the Holy Office
native_name	Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio
native_name_lang	it
image	Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.jpg
image_caption	Façade of the Palace of the Holy Office
coordinates
former_names	Palazzo Pucci
status	Intact
building_type	Palace
location	Rome, Italy
current_tenants	Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith
start_date	1514
completion_date	1524–25
renovation_date	1566–67 and 1921–25
client	Lorenzo Cardinal Pucci
owner	Holy See
architect	Giuliano Leni
Pietro Roselli
Michelangelo
ren_architect	Pirro Ligorio
Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi
Pietro Guidi

Pietro Roselli Michelangelo Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi Pietro Guidi

The Palace of the Holy Office () is a building in Rome which is an extraterritorial property of the Holy See. It houses the Holy Office of the Roman Catholic Church.

The palace is situated south of Saint Peter's Basilica near the Petrine Gate to Vatican City. The building lies outside the confines of Vatican City at the south-eastern corner of the city-state. It is one of the properties of the Holy See in Italy regulated by the 1929 Lateran Treaty signed with the Kingdom of Italy. As such, it has extraterritorial status.

The palace was first built after 1514 for Lorenzo Cardinal Pucci, and it was called Palazzo Pucci. Its façade was rebuilt in 1524–1525 by the architects Giuliano Leni, Pietro Roselli and even Michelangelo. When Pucci died in 1531, the building was still not fully completed.

In 1566–1567, the palace was purchased by Pope Pius V for 9000 scudi, and it was converted into the seat of the Holy Office. Renovation works were undertaken by Pirro Ligorio and Giovanni Sallustio Peruzzi. A complete renovation of the building was made by Pietro Guidi between 1921 and 1925.

It is where Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger formerly worked as Prefect of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith. Being immediately east of the Paul VI Audience Hall, it houses the adjunct New Synod Hall.

In 2025, Pope Leo XIV spent the first nights of his papacy in the palace, where he already lived as a curial cardinal.

References

(3 January 2016). "Rari e preziosi. Documenti dell'età moderna e contemporanea dall'archivio del Sant'Uffizio: Catalogo mostra a Roma, Museo Centrale del Risorgimento". Gangemi Editore spa.
(May 1999). "Palazzo del Sant'Uffizio: The Opening of the Roman Inquisition's Central Archive".
"Aula nuova del Sinodo · Piazza del Sant'uffizio, 00120 Roma RM, Italy".

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