Église Santa Patrizia, Baroque church in Naples, Italy

Santa Patrizia Church is a baroque building in Naples featuring a single nave with side chapels adorned with marble and religious paintings. The interior includes a richly decorated altar and multiple spaces for worship, each enhanced with artistic details from different periods.

Founded in the 8th century, the church was rebuilt with its convent in the 16th century in a local Renaissance style. In the following century it was rebuilt again, this time as a street-facing church designed by Giovanni Marino Della Monica.

The church is dedicated to Saint Patricia, a saint newly canonised when Basilian nuns founded the site in the 8th century. It is still open for worship and now sits within the Naples campus of the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, so students and staff pass through a former convent complex.

The church is located on Via Armanni and remains an active place of worship in the city center. Visitors should dress respectfully and be aware that worship services take place regularly, so access may be limited at certain times.

The church is often confused with Santa Patrizia interna, a separate later church also known as Santi Nicandro e Marciano. The complex on Via Armanni now belongs to the Università degli Studi della Campania Luigi Vanvitelli, whose human anatomy department and its museum occupy part of the former convent.