Theological Faculty of Lugano
| Faculty of Theology Lugano Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano (FTL) |
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| founding | 1992 |
| Sponsorship | Private |
| place | Lugano |
| state | Ticino |
| country | Switzerland |
| Rector | René Roux |
| Students | 255 (2004) |
| Website | www.teologialugano.ch |
The Theological Faculty Lugano (Italian: Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano FTL ) is a Roman Catholic philosophical-theological university in Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
history
The Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano was founded on April 27, 1992 by decree by Eugenio Corecco , Bishop of Lugano , as the Istituto Teologico di Lugano . The background to this was the seminary that was relocated to Freiburg im Üechtland in the 1970s and was to be resettled in the Diocese of Lugano. Bishop Corecco inaugurated the college together with Cardinal Zenon Grocholewski , Prefect of the Congregation for Catholic Education. On November 20, 1993 the name was changed to Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano FTL . In 2004 the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano was accredited.
The university promotes the integration of spiritual communities in the university such as that of the Neocatechumenal Way , the Community of the Beatitudes, the Franciscan Fraternity of Bethany or the Shalom movement (Shalom Brasil) that originated in Brazil.
organization
The university was initially located in Via Nassa in the old town. Since 2002, the headquarters have been in the new campus planned by Michele Christen together with the institutionally separate University of Italian Switzerland on Via Giacomo e Filippo Ciani on the Cassarate , a river through Lugano.
Rector has been the church historian René Roux since February 2015 , the local bishop is the Grand Chancellor, currently Valerio Lazzeri .
The university offers the subjects of Catholic theology and philosophy as well as canon law with bachelor, master and doctoral programs. The Institute for Canon Law and Comparative Religious Law (DiReCom; Istituto internazionale di diritto canonico e diritto comparato delle religioni) offers a master's degree in Comparative Religious Law.
Well-known lecturers
- Libero Gerosa , canon lawyer, rector since 2000
- Georges Cottier OP †, theologian and philosopher
- Manfred Hauke , dogmatist and patrologist
- Michael Kunzler †, liturgical scholar
- Klaus Müller , fundamental theologian and religious philosopher
- Ludger Müller †, canon lawyer
- Michael Schulz , dogmatist
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b “Theological Faculty Lugano in the new building. Flourishing “firstborns” on the Ticino campus ” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 22, 2002
- ↑ Accreditation of the Facoltà di Teologia di Lugano, 2004
- ↑ Guido Horst: “Internationally and with a tailwind from Rome” , in: Die Tagespost
- ↑ Master of Comparative Religious Law ( Memento from August 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )