Pontifical University of Comillas

Pontifical University of Comillas
motto	El Valor de la Excelencia
founding	1890
Sponsorship	private ( Jesuits )
place	Madrid
country	Spain
Chancellor	Arturo Sosa Abascal SJ
Students	13,350 (2018)
Employee	2,186
including professors	1,761 (lecturers and researchers)
Networks	FIUC , TIME
Website	www.upcomillas.es

The Pontifical University of Comillas ( Spanish : Universidad Pontificia de Comillas ) is a papal university and one of the most famous academic institutions in Spain .

history

It was founded on December 16, 1890 in Comillas ( Cantabria ) by Pope Leo XIII. as a Catholic seminary for the formation of priests.

The main building of the old university in Comillas

In 1968 it was decided to move the facility completely to Madrid. Here the university has two campus facilities, one in the Instituto Católico de Artes e Industrias (ICAI), founded in 1908 , which functions as a center for technical courses, and one in the Instituto Católico de Administración y Dirección de Empresas (ICADE), the center for law - and economics.

There are about 10,000 students enrolled. The college is run by the Jesuit order and the leading members of the university management belong to the Jesuits. José Ramón Busto Saiz is the rector and thus administrative director of the university . The respective superior general of the Jesuits acts as chairman of the supervisory body (chancellor) .

The former university building is owned by the regional government of Cantabria and will in future house the Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores del Español (CIESE or Fundación Comillas). Its headquarters are currently in the Palacio de Sobrellano .

The Areneros building in Madrid, home of the Law and Economics Center

Faculties

Faculty of Theology
Faculty of Canon Law
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Faculty of Law and Economics (ICADE)

such as

School of Engineering (ICAI)
School of Nursing Sciences and Physiotherapy

Well-known professors

Enrique Miret Magdalena (1914–2009), Roman Catholic theologian and church critic
Luis Ladaria (* 1944), Jesuit, dogmatist, Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith since 2017
Juan Antonio Martínez Camino SJ (* 1953), auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Madrid since 2007