Gregorian University

Gregorian University

in full  Pontifical Gregorian University,  Latin  Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana,  byname  The Greg,  

      Roman Catholic institution of higher learning in Rome. It was founded in 1551 as the Collegium Romanum (College of Rome) by St. Ignatius of Loyola and St. Francis Borgia and constituted as a university by Pope Julius III. It received its present name as the result of the efforts of Pope Gregory XIII, who considerably expanded the institution in 1567. The university's rector is appointed by the pope, and the majority of its professors, who come from all over the world, are Jesuits. The Gregorian University functions primarily as an institution of higher learning for the Roman Catholic clergy, though others are not excluded. Among the university's graduates are 19 canonized saints, 16 popes, and 24 persons who have been beatified. Faculties include theology, canon law, philosophy, church history, missiology, social sciences; institutes of psychology, spiritual theology, and higher religious sciences; and a school of Latin language and literature.

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