Optime noscitis (1854)

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Optime noscitis is an encyclical from Pope Pius IX. , with which he addressed the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland on the occasion of the opening of the Catholic University of Ireland on March 20, 1854.

About the creation

At the beginning the Pope recalled the Irish Synod of Bishops in Thurles in 1850, at which the Irish episcopate had taken the decision to ask the Pope for approval to establish an autonomous Catholic University of Ireland. It was with great joy and well-deserved wages that he granted approval in his Apostolic Letter on March 23, 1852. In that letter he ordered that the Archbishop of Armagh, as apostolic commissioner, would be entrusted with the direction of the establishment of the Catholic University . Now this office should be handed over to the Archbishop of Dublin Paul Cullen , the former Archbishop of Armagh, who had already chaired the Synod of Bishops in 1850 and supported the resolution.

Management and task

Pius IX reminded of the apostolic responsibility and issued certain behavioral measures that should be taken into account in teaching teaching. He also requested that a good level of religious and spiritual knowledge be required when selecting teachers. He installed Father John Henry Newman as rector of that university and urged the dioceses of the country to pay their attention to this Catholic university and to make every effort to ensure that this work may be accepted as a divine gift.

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