Interior Basilica San Juan De Letrán Roma Italy Europe Editorial Photo

Basilica San Juan de Letrán is the oldest church in the world.Roma ItalynSan Juan de Letrán is the oldest church in the world. Rome Italy.That is why she receives the title of Head and Mother of all the churches. When the persecutions ceased, at the beginning of the IV century, the emperor Constantine yielded to the Pope the Lateran Palace pre-existent to the church, so that it was his official residence. Letrán was the headquarters of the Catholic Church for more than 1,000 years, until the fourteenth century when the Popes moved to the Vatican.