Pontifical Biblical Institute

Pontificio Istituto Biblico (PIB)
motto	Verbum Domini manet in aeternum
founding	1909
Sponsorship	papal
place	Rome
country	Italy
Rector	Michael Francis Kolarcik SJ
Students	324 (2019)
Networks	FIUC
Website	biblico.it

The Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome ( it : Pontificio Istituto Biblico , PIB) is a Vatican university in Rome .

The Pontifical Biblical Institute is an affiliate of the Gregorian and the Pontifical Oriental Institute . The institute has the right to award academic degrees, including doctorates.

history

The institute was founded in 1902 by Pope Leo XIII. planned, but only by his successor Pius X founded. Pius X commissioned on May 7, 1909, the Congregation of the Jesuits with the organization and named Leopold Fonck the founding rector. In 1927 a branch was opened in Jerusalem .

Faculties

• Biblical exegesis
• Oriental studies

Rectors

• Leopold Fonck (1865–1930), professor of exegesis of the New Testament, founding rector from 1909 to 1918
• Andrés Fernández , rector from 1918 to 1924
• John J. O'Rourke (1875–1958), rector from 1924 to 1930
• Augustin Bea (1881–1968), professor of biblical theology, rector from 1930 to 1949, cardinal
• Ernesto Vogt (1903–1984), rector from 1949 to 1963
• Roderick Andrew Francis MacKenzie (1911–1994), professor, rector from 1963 to 1969
• Carlo Maria Martini (1927–2012), Rector from 1969 to 1978, em. Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal
• Albert Vanhoye (* 1923), professor from 1963 to 1993, rector from 1984 to 1990, cardinal
• Klemens Stock (* 1934), professor, rector from 1990 to 1996
• Robert F. O'Toole (* 1936), professor, rector from 1996 from 2002
• Stephen Pisano (1946–2019), Rector from 2002 to 2008
• José-Maria Abrego de Lacy (* 1945), Rector from 2008 to 2014
• Michael Francis Kolarcik (* 1950), Rector since 2014

Known alumni (by year of birth)

• Franz Zorell (1863–1947), professor of Armenian and Georgian from 1928 to 1945
• Nicolaus Schneider (1884–1953), Assyriologist
• Dominik Kaindl OCist (1891–1973), Vicar General, Professor of Old Testament and Patrology at the Theological College in Heiligenkreuz
• Joseph Freundorfer (1894–1963), Bishop of Augsburg
• Johannes Pohl (1904–1960), Judaist and librarian, member of the ERR ( Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg )
• Peter Nober SJ (1912–1980), librarian and bibliographer
• Elie Borowski (1913–2003), art dealer
• Pierre Mamie (1920–2008), Bishop of Lausanne-Geneva-Friborg
• Elmar Maria Kredel (1922–2008), Archbishop of Bamberg
• Josef Schreiner (1922–2002), professor of Old Testament exegesis in Münster and Würzburg
• Marco Cé (1925-2014), em. Patriarch of Venice
• Barbara Aland (* 1937), Professor of Church History and New Testament Text Research at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster
• Wilhelm Egger OFMCap (1940–2008), Bishop of the Diocese of Bozen-Brixen
• Georg Braulik OSB (* 1941), professor of Old Testament biblical studies in Vienna
• Bozo Lujic (* 1946), professor of theological lay culture at the Theological Faculty in Zagreb
• Peter Turkson (* 1948), Cardinal of the Curia
• Mark Coleridge (born 1948), Archbishop of Canberra
• Carlos Cardinal Aguiar Retes (* 1950), Archbishop of Tlalnepantla
• Giuseppe Veltri (* 1958), Professor of Jewish Studies and Jewish Studies in Halle

Publications

• The Facoltà biblica has published the magazine Biblica since 1920 .
• The Facoltà orientalistica has published the magazine Orientalia since 1932 .

Web links

• Official website of the Pontificio Istituto Biblico (Italian / English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.biblico.it/autorita.html
2. ↑ Pontificium institutum biblicum de urbe: Acta pontificii instituti biblici , ISSN  1126-845X , Vol. 12, Part 5: 2018-19 , Rome 2019, p. 579.
3. ↑ Members. In: www.fiuc.org. International Federation of Catholic Universities, accessed September 26, 2019 .  

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