to the new pastor on 1 January 1922. Cardinal William Henry O'Connell of Boston presided at the first public Mass for the American community of the city on 26 February 1922. The cardinal who held the title to the church had died during the summer of 1921, leaving the church with no legal owner under Italian law. At the same time, electrical lights were installed in the church, to which Americans were accustomed but Roman people found shocking. The Ambassador of Romania also claimed the church as a national church for the people of his country. The ownership issue settled at the end of 1924, when Bonzano, the former Apostolic Nuncio and by then a cardinal himself, requested a transfer of his title to this church. Once that was accomplished, he appointed O'Neill as the rector of the parish. From 1958 to 1985, the cardinal assigned to Santa Susanna as his titular church has been the Archbishop of Boston. Bernard Francis Law remained the titular cardinal until his December 2017 death, though he resigned as archbishop in 2002 in the wake of the sexual abuse scandal in his archdiocese. Since August 2017, following a campaign by the Cistercian nuns who had maintained a presence at Santa Susanna since 1587, the American expatriate community relocated its national church to San Patrizio. Cardinal Priests of Santa Susanna since 494 List of the cardinal titulars of the church Asello (494–?) Rusticus (590–?) Conone (Pope Conon) (683?–686) Sergius (Pope Sergius I) (683?–687) Johanes (745 – before 761) Leontius (761 – before 796) Leo (Pope Leo III) (795) Johannes (964 – before 1012) Johannes (before 1012 – before 1033) Johannes (1033 – before 1062) Petrus (1062 – before 1099) Pietro Gheradesca di Donoratico (1099–1106) Gezo (1106 – c. 1112) Pietro Gherardeschi (1117–1130); pseudocardinal of Antipope Anacletus II Stanzio (1130–1133) Giordano Bobone Orsini (1145–1165) Ermanno, called il Maestro (1165 or 1166 – c. 1170) Lesbio Grassi (1170–1173) Pietro de Bono (1173–1187) Alessio (1188–1189) Giovani Felice (1190–1194) Bendetto (1201–1212) Aldobrandino Gaetani (or Ildebrando) (1219–1221) Geoffroy Barbeau (or de Barro) (1281–1287) Benedetto Caetani (1288–1294) Pierre d'Arrablay (or Arabloy) (1316–1328) Andrea Ghini Malpighi (Andrea Ghilini) (1342–1343) Pierre Bertrand (or du Colombier) (1344–1361) Filippo Ruffini (or Gezza) (1378–1386) Francesco Carbone Tomacelli (1384–1392) Pierre de Thury (1385–1410) Antonio II Panciera (6 June 1411 – 3 July 1431) Guillaume-Hugues d'Estaing (1431–1446) Tommaso Parentucelli di Sanzana (Pope Nicholas V) (1446–1447) Filippo Calandrini (1448–1451)