Affiliation

OUR AFFILIATION

We are affiliated to the Pontifical University of Urbaniana, Rome.

The Pontifical Urban University is an academic institution belonging to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The university provides for research and teaching within the framework of the Holy See’s educational system regulated by the Congregation for Catholic Education.

The origins of the Urban University date back to 1627, when Pope Urban VIII decided to establish the Urban College with the bull Immortalis Dei Filius. This college was the very first educational institution within the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples.

The institute was granted the authority to confer the bachelor’s degrees by the Studium Urbis itself, at present the La Sapienza University of Rome.

The Pontifical Urban University was endowed with the title “pontifical” with the motu proprio Fidei Propagandae of Blessed Pope John XXIII on October 1, 1962, a few days before the beginning of the Second Vatican Council.

For 300 years following its foundation