Lateran Pontifical University

Pontifical Lateran University

Type	Private, Catholic, Pontifical Grand Chancellor Angelo De Donatis
Established	1773
Rector	Rino Fisichella
Location	Rome, Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See 41°53′11″N 12°30′18″E / 41.8864°N 12.5050°E / 41.8864; 12.5050Coordinates: 41°53′11″N 12°30′18″E / 41.8864°N 12.5050°E / 41.8864; 12.5050
Website	www.pul.it
Location on a map of Rome

Private, Catholic, Pontifical

Rome, Italy, but partially extraterritorial of the Holy See

The Pontifical Lateran University (Pontificia Università Lateranense or Lateranum), also sometimes referred to as the Pontifical University of Apollinaire, is a university by pontifical right based in Rome. The university also hosts the central session of the Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family. The university is known as "The Pope's University". Its Grand Chancellor is the Vicar General to the Holy Father for the Diocese of Rome. Four of its graduates have been canonized. As of 2014^[update] the Pontifical Lateran university had students from more than a hundred countries.

The present Pontifical Lateran University was founded in 1773 by Pope Clement XIV after he had suppressed the Society of Jesus, and officially entrusted the clergy of Rome with the mission to teach theology and philosophy to seminarians from the Roman Colleges.

In 1824 Pope Leo XII restored the order and returned to the Jesuits what became the Pontifical Gregorian University, but allowed the secular clergy who had been replaced to continue to devote themselves to teaching: at the site where the Palace of Saint Apollinaris stood in 1853, Pope Pius IX founded the Faculty of Canon Law and Civil Law and the Pontifical Institute Utriusque Iuris. The new institution took the name of Pontifical Roman Seminary University.