Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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The Catholic University of the Sacred Heart ( Italian: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Latin: Universitas Catholica Sacri Cordis Jesus ) with its five locations - next to Milan as the headquarters are the Brescia, Piacenza, Cremona, Rome and Campobasso - a total of 14 faculties and about. 42,000 enrolled students of Europe 's largest private university and the largest and one of the leading Catholic universities in the world.

History

A group of culturally and religiously educated personalities in Italy, led by Father Agostino Gemelli, developed in 1919 the idea of founding a Catholic university to enrich the Italian culture and religious education. Istituto Giuseppe Toniolo 1920, the di Studi Superiori was established from this initiative out first, which can be regarded as the predecessor to the university. On 24 June 1921, the Institute was recognized by the Italian Ministry of Education and received immediately afterwards by Pope Benedict XV. the ecclesiastical status of a university.

For the first rector Father Agostino Gemelli was appointed and the lectures began in December 1921 with 100 first-year students of the two faculties of social sciences and philosophy. State recognition as a public university, she received on October 2, 1925 since that time it is called Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

With a church service on December 7, 1921, the university of their dedication and determination was passed. The Mass was celebrated by the Archbishop of Milan, Cardinal Achille Ratti, who was elected Pope three months later and the name Pius XI. led.

In 1924 the University by the Italian government the right to award academic degrees, this right was reaffirmed in the statutes of 2 October 1924, a royal decree. This was followed by the extension of the study programs and the establishment of several institutions, the expansion and development at several locations, and the creation of new courses and exams.

On August 4, 1958, the State gave its consent to the establishment of a medical school in Rome, in 1959 began the construction of additional institutions and the construction of a polyclinic. Pope John XXIII. took place in 1961, the foundation stone for the Medical College of General Medicine and Dentistry (now the Gemelli Hospital ), 1964 gave Pope Paul VI. the clinic of their determination and 1967 left the first doctors graduated this school.

Since then, several extensions were completed and regularly celebrated Academic year:

Objective

In the Catholic understanding, and with loyalty to the Catholic Church is dedicated to the university research, teaching and study in all subjects of the sciences. In all these efforts the man should have his place in the center of the social order. Apply the following principles: scientific research, information, good preparation and training, which essentially corresponds to the moral development of man.

Organization

Rectors

Personalities

  • Armida Barelli (1882-1952), co-founder of Italian Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
  • Violardo Giacomo (1898-1978), Italian cardinal
  • Sergio Pignedoli (1910-1980), Italian cardinal
  • Roberto Busa SJ (1913-2011), Italian humanists and linguist, inventor of the index Thomisticus
  • Luigi Gui (1914-2010), Italian politician
  • Luigi Mengoni (1922-2001), Italian legal scholar and judge of the Italian Constitutional Court
  • Elio Sgreccia ( b. 1928 ), bio-ethicists and Cardinal
  • Emanuele Severino ( born 1929 ), Italian philosopher
  • Silvio Cesare bonuses cellos (1932-2009), Bishop of Parma
  • Jorge Brovetto ( born 1933), Uruguayan politician
  • Carlo Ghidelli ( b. 1934 ), Archbishop of Lanciano - Ortona
  • Francesco Conz (1935-2010), Italian Publisher
  • Alberto Quadrio Curzio, ( born 1937 ), Italian political scientist
  • Luisa Muraro ( born 1940 ), Italian philosopher
  • Giovanni Maria Flick ( born 1940 ), Italian jurist and politician
  • Ettore Gotti Tedeschi (1945 ), talienischer bank manager and 2009-2012 President of the Istituto per le Opere di Religione ( IOR )
  • Raffaello Martinelli ( born 1948 ), Italian Bishop of Frascati
  • Lorenzo Ornaghi ( b. 1948 ), Italian political scientist, Rector of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (since 2006) and since the Italian Minister of Cultural Heritage (2011-2013 )
  • Ioan Petru Culianu (1950-1991), Romanian scholar of religion, cultural historian, philosopher and essayist
  • Enrico dal Covolo SDB ( born 1950 ), Italian rector of the Pontifical Lateran University
  • Mario Toso SDB ( born 1950 ), Italian Curia bishop and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace
  • Helga Thaler Ausserhofer ( born 1952 ), Italian politician
  • Paul Dembinski ( b. 1955 ), Polish -Swiss economist
  • Giovanni Marseguerra (born 1962 ), Italian economist
  • Silvia Pellegrini (born 1965 ), Italian theologian and professor of Biblical Theology at the University of Vechta
  • Michela Vittoria Brambilla (born 1967 ), Italian entrepreneur and politician and Minister
  • Angelino Alfano (born 1970 ), Italian politician, Minister of Justice ( 2008-10 ) and interior minister (since 2013)
  • Lara Comi ( b. 1983 ), Italian politician and Member of the European Parliament
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