Pontifical Urban University
Coordinates: 41 ° 53 ′ 58.4 " N , 12 ° 27 ′ 30.1" E
| Pontificia Università Urbaniana PUU | |
|---|---|
| founding | 1627 |
| place | Rome |
| country |
 Italy
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| Rector (Rettore Magnifico) | Leonardo Sileo |
| Students | approx. 1,400 (2004) |
| Employee | approx. 130 lecturers (2004) |
| Networks | FIUC |
| Website | www.urbaniana.edu |
The Pontifical Urban University ( Latin : Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana ; Italian : Pontificia Università Urbaniana ; short: PUU ) is a university under papal law and has its seat in the city of Rome . The Urbaniana University is the main body of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples . The focus of the training is the cultural and scientific training of employees in the mission countries, such as missionaries or mission science specialists and specialists from other disciplines.
organization
Seminars and institutes for philosophy, theology, missiology and canon law in Africa, Asia, America, Oceania and Europe have been associated with the university since 1966.
The Urbaniana is divided into the faculties of philosophy , theology , canon law and missiology .
history
The college was founded in 1622 by Gregory XV. planned with the establishment of the congregation De Propaganda Fide . On August 1, 1627, Pope Urban VIII recognized the Collegio Urbano de Propaganda Fide with the Bull Immortalis Dei Filius . The college was then founded by the Spanish priest Juan Bautista Vives y Marja (1545–1632). Urban VIII commissioned Gian Lorenzo Bernini to build the Palazzo di Propaganda Fide , which housed the university. Under Innocent X , the palace of was Francesco Borromini completed. In 1927 Pius XI. the college, inaugurated in 1933, from Piazza di Spagna to the Gianicolo . Pope John XXIII On October 1, 1962, shortly before the beginning of the Second Vatican Council , elevated the college to a university with the Motu Proprio Fidei Propagandae (German: "To spread the faith").
The Pontifical Urban University also includes the College of San Pietro and the College of San Paolo with different theological specializations, as well as the College of Mater Ecclesiae in Castel Gandolfo . There is also the Paul VI institute .
In 2004 around 1,400 students were taught by around 130 professors and lecturers at the university on the Roman hill Gianicolo .
Rectors
- Salvatore Garofalo , 1958–1971
- ...
- José Saraiva Martins CMF, 1977-1983
- ...
- José Saraiva Martins CMF, 1986-1988
- Daniel Acharuparambil OCD , 1988-1994
- ...
- Ambrogio Spreafico , 1997-2003
- Giuseppe Cavallotti , 2003-2008
- Cataldo Zuccaro , 2008-2011
- Presbitero Alberto Trevisiol , IMC (2011-2017)
- Presbitero Leonardo Sileo , since 2017
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.urbaniana.it/it/eventi/375.htm
- ↑ http://www.urbaniana.edu/urbaniana/Organico/Autorita.aspx
- ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 25, 2019 .
- ^ “Interview with Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe” ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Fides Service October 22, 2005
- ^ Ioannes XXIII: Motu Proprio Fidei Propagandae , AAS 54 (1962).
- ↑ Biography of Salvatore Garofalo (PDF)