Pontifical Gregorian University

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The Pontifical Gregorian University (Latin: Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana, Italian: Pontificia Università Gregoriana, in short: PUG) is a product obtained from the first Jesuit Collegio Romano University School of pontifical right and has its headquarters in the Italian capital Rome. The University still enjoys great international reputation and is therefore considered as the most important Pontifical university in the world.

Historical Overview

Today's Gregorian University was in 1551 by Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Jesuit order, in an urban Roman palace on the Campidoglio in Via Capitolina (now Piazza d' Aracoeli ) was established. This first school of the Jesuits, equipped with a library was initially called Collegio Romano. The College enjoyed great popularity and in 1584 by Pope Gregory XIII. elsewhere reopened in the city. Gregory XIII. was henceforth e Protettore ( founder and protector / sponsor ) celebrated as Fondatore the university, so the university later ( 1873) was called the " Gregorian " after him.

After dissolution of the Jesuit order in 1773, the Roman diocesan clergy at the Collegio Romano was formed. After the re-establishment of the Jesuits in 1814 was Pope Leo XII. on 17 May 1824, the University again the Jesuits.

In 1873 the Collegio Romano from Palazzo Borromeo laid in the Via del Seminario, between Piazza Venezia and the Fontana di Trevi ( Trevi Fountain ), where today the Gregorian located. In the building that housed the Collegio Romano until then, the Jesuit College Bellarmine College was established. With a rescript from the December 4, 1873 was the former Collegio Romano Pope Pius IX. the title " Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana ".

Until the 19th century there were mathematical and scientific research and teaching at the Collegio Romano (see Christopher Clavius ​​, Christoph Grienberger, Athanasius Kircher, Angelo Secchi ), temporarily, the Vatican Observatory was assigned to him.

Associated institutes are founded in 1909 Pontifical Biblical Institute ( Istituto Pontifical Biblico (PIB ) ), and founded in 1917, Pontifical Oriental Institute ( Istituto Orientale Pontifical ( PIO) ).

Organization

The Jesuit- run University is now divided into four institutes, six faculties and three other training centers.

The faculties comprise the following events:

  • Theology
  • Canon Law
  • Philosophy
  • Church History
  • Mission Studies
  • Social sciences

There about 1500 students study at the Theological Faculty of the PUG. Language of instruction is Italian for all mandatory courses since the 1970s, but courses in up to six languages ​​are also offered.

Assigned to Gregorian is the Matteo Ricci Conference Centre, taking place at the international congresses.

Rectors

Rectors of the Gregorian since 1551 were:

  • Ioannes Pelletier ( 1551 )
  • ...
  • Emidio Rossi (1900-1904)
  • Franz Xaver Wernz (1904-1906)
  • Quercini Quercini Ludovico (1906-1910)
  • Pio Mandato De (1910-1914)
  • Luigi Caterini (1914-1918)
  • Francesco Saverio Calcagn (1918-1922)
  • Carlo Miccinelli (1922-1926)
  • Giuseppe Gianfranceschi (1926-1930)
  • Ferdinand Willaert (1930-1933)
  • Vincent J. McCormick (1933-1941)
  • Paolo Dezza (1941-1951)
  • Pedro M. Abellan (1951-1957)
  • Pablo Muñoz Vega (1957-1963)
  • Dhanis Édouard (1963-1966)
  • Hervé Carrier (1966-1978)
  • Carlo Maria Martini (1978-1980)
  • Urbano Navarrete (1980-1986)
  • Gilles Pelland (1986-1992)
  • Giuseppe Pittau (1992-1998)
  • Imoda Franco (1998-2004)
  • Gianfranco Ghirlanda (2004-2010)
  • François -Xavier Dumortier (since 2010)

Inter-religious dialogue

The ISIRC ( Istituto per gli studi su interdisciplinari religioni s culture ) qualified Catholic theologians for church dialogue work and forms non-Christians who have already obtained an academic degree in their own religion, interfaith dialogue partners. The Institute taught mainly in English and gives a master (4 semesters) or Diploma (2 semesters ). As part of the lecture program also a basic course for Islam diplomats at the Gregorian is offered. The three-week course is aimed at diplomats from Muslim-majority countries of the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. On the agenda of interreligious basic course focuses on the organization and function of various organs of the Holy See, the tasks of the Nunciature, the humanitarian commitment of the Church, their commitment to peace, such as the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue. The political focus of the Holy See currently applies to countries in the Middle East.

Known students and faculty

  • Christopher Clavius ​​, SJ (1538-1612), mathematician
  • Gregory of Valencia (1549-1603), Jesuit priest and professor of theology
  • Christoph Grienberger SJ (1561-1636), Astronomer
  • Athanasius Kircher, SJ (1602-1680), polymath
  • Innocent XIII. (1655-1724), Pope from 1721 to 1724
  • John Henry Newman (1801-1890), Cardinal and former Anglican theologian
  • John McCloskey (1810-1885), Archbishop of New York (1864-1885) and the first American cardinal
  • Angelo Secchi SJ (1818-1878), astronomer ( spectroscope )
  • Herbert Vaughan (1832-1903), Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster, founder of the Missionary Society of St.. Joseph of Mill Hill
  • John Ude (1874-1965), theologian, philosopher, pacifist
  • Augustin Bea, SJ (1881-1968), Cardinal
  • Titus Brandsma (1881-1942), Carmelite and Nazi resistance fighters, beatified in 1985
  • Alfons hatchet (1896-1997), Papal Secret Chamberlain ( Monsignor )
  • Paul VI. (1897-1978), Pope from 1963 to 1978
  • Joseph Schröffer (1903-1983), Bishop of Eichstätt, later Cardinal
  • Franz Zauner Salesius (1904-1994), Bishop of Linz
  • Joseph Hoffner (1906-1987), Archbishop of Cologne
  • Paul Michalke SVD (1909-2008), Professor and university rector at St. Gabriel
  • Gustav A. Weather (1911-1991), professor at the Pontifical Oriental Institute
  • Ismael Blas Rolón Silvero SDB (1914-2010), em. Archbishop of Asunción
  • Ivan Prasko (1914-2001), Bishop of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
  • Aloysius Jin Luxian SJ (1916-2013), Bishop of Shanghai
  • Oscar Romero (1917-1980), Archbishop of El Salvador
  • Alois Wagner (1924-2002), Archbishop, permanent representative of the Holy See in the international organizations of the United Nations in Rome
  • Ivan Illich (1926-2002), priest, author, philosopher, theologian, culture critic
  • Carlo Maria Martini, SJ (1927-2012), Archbishop of Milan
  • John Adel Elya ( b. 1928 ), Lebanese cleric, Bishop of Newton, United States
  • Vladimír Boublik (1928-1974), Czech theological philosopher
  • Friedrich Wetter ( born 1928 ), Archbishop of Munich and Freising
  • Hans Küng ( b. 1928 ), a priest and former director of the Institute for Ecumenical Research and em. Professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
  • Affonso Felippe Gregory (1930-2008), Bishop of Imperatriz, Brazil, president of Caritas International 1991-1998
  • Eugenio Corecco (1931-1995), Bishop of Lugano
  • Anton Schlembach ( born 1932 ), former bishop of Speyer
  • Joachim Meisner ( born 1933), Archbishop of Cologne
  • Friedrich Janssen ( born 1935 ), theologian
  • Karl Lehmann ( b. 1936 ), Cardinal, Bishop of Mainz and former Chairman of the German Bishops' Conference
  • Adolfo Nicolás (* 1936), since 2008, Superior General of the Society of Jesus
  • Alois Kothgasser ( b. 1937 ), and since 2003 archbishop of Salzburg and thus Primate Germaniae and Legatus Natus
  • Samuele Bacchiocchi (1938-2008), Seventh-day Adventist theologian and church historian (PhD )
  • Bartholomew I ( born 1940 ), Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Opel
  • Thomas Hong -Soon Han (1944 ), Professor of Economics and papal CFO since 2008
  • Luis Ladaria SJ (1944 ), dogmatist, since 2008 secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
  • Konrad Zdarsa ( b. 1944 ), bishop of Augsburg
  • Ludwig Schick ( b. 1949 ), Archbishop of Bamberg
  • Karlheinz Diez (born 1954 ), Auxiliary Bishop in the Diocese of Fulda
  • Paul B. Steffen SVD (born 1954 ), professor at the Facoltà di Missiologia, Pontificia Università Urban
  • Georg Gänswein (* 1956), prelate and private secretary of Pope Benedict XVI.
  • Pedro Barrajón LC ( * 1957), rector of the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum
  • Saverio Cannistrà OCD (* 1958), Superior General of the Teresian Carmel
  • Karl -Heinz Wiese (b. 1960), Bishop of Speyer
  • Ibrahim Michael Ibrahim ( b. 1962 ), Lebanese Bishops in Canada

Well-known professors

  • Robert Cardinal Bellarmine, SJ (1542-1621), professor of controversial theology, Jesuit
  • Johann Christoph Rassler was (1654-1723), Jesuit, professor of moral theology, dogmatics, and later philosophy and theology at the University of Ingolstadt and the University of Dillingen, Rector of the University of Dillingen 1714-1716, prefect of studies at the Collegium Romanum 1716
  • Josef Kleutgen, ( born September 9, 1811 in Dortmund, † January 13, 1883 in St. Anton at Kaltern, South Tyrol), Jesuit, co-author of the dogma of infallibility
  • Leopold Fonck (1865-1930), professor of New Testament exegesis
  • Maurice de la Taille (1872-1933), professor of theology
  • John Rabeneck (1874-1960), Professor of Biblical Theology
  • Francis Hürth (1880-1963), professor of moral theology and in this capacity a close advisor of Pope Pius XII.
  • Sebastian Tromp (1889-1975), Professor of treatises on the font of inspiration and revelation
  • Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), Canadian Jesuit theologian and philosopher of religion
  • Friedrich Kempf (1908-2002), professor of palaeography and diplomatics and of Church History of the Middle Ages
  • Roberto Busa, SJ, 1913-2011, Italian humanists and linguist, inventor of the index Thomisticus
  • Tomáš Cardinal Špidlík SJ (1919-2010), professor of patristic and Eastern Orthodox Spirituality
  • Xavier Tilliette ( b. 1921 ), professor of philosophy and Philosophiehistorik
  • Peter Gumpel (* 1923), professor of theology
  • Peter Henrici ( b. 1928 ), Professor of Philosophy
  • Pius Engelbert ( b. 1936 ), professor of theology, abbot of the abbey Gerleve 1999-2006
  • Winfried Schulz (1938-1995), Professor of Law at the Lateran University, Vatican
  • Gianfranco Ghirlanda ( b. 1942 ), professor of canon law and rector of 1 April 2004
  • Luis Ladaria (* 1944), Jesuit, dogmatist, since 2008 secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith
  • Rino Fisichella ( born 1951 ), Archbishop Roman Curia, rector from 2001 to 2004
  • Sr. Nuria Calduch Benages, MHSFN, Professor of Biblical Theology of the Old Testament
  • Bruna Costacurta, Professor of Biblical Theology of the Old Testament Bible
  • Paolo Martinelli, OFM Cap, president of the Institute of the Franciscan Spirituality, Pontifical University " Antonianum "; Professor of Fundamental Theology, Pontifical Gregorian University
  • Karl Josef Becker SJ Cardinal ( b. 1928 ), professor of dogmatics and history of dogma

Trivia

The football team won the 2011 Le Clerc Cup ( German clergy Cup ), the football championship of the Vatican.

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