Pontifical Catholic University of Peru

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Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
PUCP
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founding March 24, 1917
Sponsorship Private
place Lima
country PeruPeru Peru
president Carlos Miguel Garatea Gray
Students 24,403 (July 2019)
Employee 369 full-time lecturers, 80 part-time lecturers, 1064 lecturers for certain subjects, 1766 other staff (9/2004)
Networks CGU , IAU
Website www.pucp.edu.pe

The Pontifical Catholic University of Peru ( Spanish : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú , PUCP) is a university in Lima , Peru . It was the first private university in the country.

history

On March 18, 1917, the " Catholic University " in Lima was founded by the Arnsteiner Father Jorge Dintilhac (1878–1947). The college was awarded the title “ Pontifical University ” in 1942.

Expansion of the faculties

The first two faculties were the humanities (Letras) and law (Jurisprudencia). In 1933, the faculties of engineering (Ingeniería) and political and economic sciences (Ciencias Políticas y Económicas) were added. In the following years other institutions were founded, such as B. 1935 an institute for education, in 1939 the Catholic Art Academy established by Adolfo Winternitz - from which the Faculty of Art emerged in the 1980s - and in 1945 the School of Journalism . In 1947, the Faculty of Education (Educación) was founded, into which the Pedagogical Institute was merged. In the 1950s, further institutes were added and in 1964 the Faculty of Social Sciences was founded, which in the following decades, together with the Political Science Faculty, gained a reputation that was respected beyond national borders, especially through prominent professors such as Gustavo Gutiérrez and Salomón Lerner . Gutiérrez, who is considered the founder of liberation theology and strongly influenced the institution, has taught theology , philosophy and social sciences at the university since 1960 and entered the Dominican order in 1998 . In 1998 the Faculty of Communication Studies (Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación) was founded and in 2002 the Faculty of Architecture .

Dispute over the withdrawal of papal recognition from 2012

Due to unauthorized changes to the statutes and impairment of church interests, the Vatican, under the auspices of the State Secretariat under Cardinal Secretary of State Tarcisio Bertone , revoked the title of "Pontifical Catholic University" in July 2012. This had been preceded by various attempts at mediation, including a visit by the Hungarian Cardinal Péter Erdő as papal legate . The dispute, which has persisted since 2007, concerned personnel issues, teaching content and the power of disposal over the university's real estate assets and, most recently, an adaptation of the university statutes to church specifications required by the Vatican. Protagonists of the permanent dispute were the ex officio as Grand Chancellor reigning University Archbishop of Lima , Juan Luis Cipriani Thorne , of the Opus Dei belongs, and the former rector of the university, the constitutional lawyer and human rights activist Marcial Rubio . Rubio was co-author of the final report of the Peruvian Truth Commission on the armed conflicts in Peru between 1980 and 2000, published in 2003 , in which Cipriani made significant failures in his time as Archbishop of Ayacucho during the war under President Alberto Fujimori against the Maoist guerrilla movement Sendero Luminoso in the 1990s were accused.

Despite the revocation, the university initially continued to use the title on the grounds that it was a state-recognized Peruvian institution under this name that was registered as a civil society with its seat in Peru and its name was subject to Peruvian and non-canon law. The then prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith , Gerhard Ludwig Müller, who has an honorary doctorate from the PUCP, is friends with Gustavo Gutiérrez and tried to settle the dispute , also criticized the withdrawal . Gutiérrez considers the final report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which the PUCP largely developed by Marcial Rubio and Salomón Lerner, to be one of the most important documents in Peruvian history.

After Pope Francis took office and Cardinal Bertone was disempowered, the dispute with the Vatican initially rested, while the institutional dispute between Cardinal Cipriani and the university bodies reached the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in 2013 . In the new negotiations on the status of the university that began in June 2015, the Vatican then showed itself to be much more flexible and accepted the fundamental autonomy of the university guaranteed by the Peruvian Higher Education Act. After 14 months of negotiations, the Pope dismissed Juan Luis Cipriani from his position as Grand Chancellor, which is now to be exercised by a representative of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference or a representative of the Church appointed directly by the Pope and not combined with the far-reaching powers that Cipriani has for itself requested (in particular the right to appoint the rector and dismiss teaching staff). At the same time, the university approved the amendments to the statutes required by the church and has since used its title again with papal permission. There was no recall of the left-wing liberal rector, which Cipriani had been calling for since 2011. In the legal dispute between the university and the Archdiocese of Lima over the administration of the university's real estate, the Peruvian Supreme Court issued a final judgment in 2017, which confirmed the position of the university's owner foundation and rejected ownership claims by the church. In July 2019, the new Archbishop of Lima, Carlos Castillo Mattasoglio , announced that further points of contention, which arose from the specifications in the will of José de la Riva Agüero, the founder of the university's assets, were due to an out-of-court settlement between the university and the archbishopric Lima had been settled.

Grand Chancellor

Since November 2016, the incumbent Prefect of the Vatican Congregation for Education , the Italian Giuseppe Cardinal Versaldi , has been the Grand Chancellor of the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru.

Faculties

There are 10 faculties:

  • Faculty of Administration and Accounting (Administración y Contabilidad)
  • Faculty of Art (Arte)
  • Faculty of Natural and Engineering Sciences (Ciencias e Ingeniería)
  • Faculty of Social Sciences (Ciencias Sociales)
  • Faculty of Communication Studies (Ciencias y Artes de la Comunicación)
  • Faculty of Law (Derecho)
  • Faculty of Education (Educación)
  • Faculty of Humanities and Human Sciences (Letras y Ciencias Humanas)
  • Faculty of Architecture (Arquitectura y Urbanismo)
  • Faculty of Management (Gestión y Alta Dirección)

Around 40 different courses are offered at these.

Professors

Honorary doctors

Joseph Ratzinger, who later became Pope Benedict XVI, is one of the university's numerous honorary doctorates . (2005–2013), who received an honorary doctorate in 1986 as Prefect of the Roman Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (1981–2005), and Gerhard Ludwig Müller , who was honored with an honorary doctorate as Bishop of Regensburg in 2008 and later also Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith (2012–2005) 2017) was.

See also

Web links

Commons : Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ University Assembly. President. In: www.pucp.edu.pe. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  2. ^ Academic data. In: www.pucp.edu.pe. Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, accessed on August 11, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Member universities. In: web.gcompostela.org. Compostela Group of Universities, 2019, accessed on September 14, 2019 .
  4. ^ List of IAU Members. In: iau-aiu.net. International Association of Universities, accessed August 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Letter from the Vatican, was published as a PDF file on the university's homepage under a link that is no longer available today ( Memento of August 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
  6. ^ Declaration by the Rector dated July 22, 2012 , accessed on August 3, 2017.
  7. ↑ Lima's cardinal insists on sanctions against the university. In: Blickpunkt Latin America , February 21, 2013, accessed on August 3, 2017.
  8. ↑ “En esta Universidad recibí las ideas y valores que me permitieron cumplir con el Perú” . Ceremony for the 70th birthday of Salomón Lerner Febres on July 19, 2014, documented on the PUCP homepage, accessed on August 3, 2017.
  9. ↑ Caso PUCP: CIDH dio trámite a pedido de universidad en pugna por administración. Press release of the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights of Peru, September 3, 2013, accessed August 3, 2017.
  10. ↑ PUCP aprobó nuevo estatuto y Cipriani ya no será gran canciller. In: El Comercio , October 16, 2016, accessed on August 3, 2017.
  11. ↑ Marcial Rubio admite ser rector de facto de la PUCP. In: RPP Noticias , August 28, 2011, accessed August 3, 2017.
  12. ^ Corte Superior confirma que el Arzobispado no tiene derecho sobre bienes de la PUCP. In: El Comercio , June 8, 2017, accessed August 4, 2017.
  13. ↑ Arzobispo de Lima anuncia acuerdo extrajudicial con pontificia universidad católica , ACI Prensa, July 9, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2019.
  14. ↑ Cardenal Versaldi nombrado Gran Canciller de la PUCP. PUCP press release, November 15, 2016, accessed on October 24, 2017.
  15. ↑ Monsignor Gerhard Mueller nombrado Prefecto de la Congregación para la Doctrina de la Fe. PUCP press release, July 2, 2012, accessed October 24, 2017.