Urban College
| Pontificia Università Urbaniana | |
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| Latin: Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana | |
| Motto | Euntes docete (Matthew 28:19) |
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Motto in English
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Go and teach |
| Type | Private pontifical university |
| Established | 1 August 1627 |
| Affiliation | Catholic (Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples) |
| Chancellor | Fernando Filoni |
| Rector | Alberto Trevisiol |
| Location |
Via Urbano VIII, 16 Rome, Italy 41°53′58″N 12°27′35″E / 41.89944°N 12.45972°ECoordinates: 41°53′58″N 12°27′35″E / 41.89944°N 12.45972°E |
| Website | www |
The Pontifical Urban University, also called the Urbaniana after its names in both Latin and Italian, is a pontifical university under the authority of the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The university's mission is to train priests, religious brothers and sisters, and lay people for service as missionaries. Its campus is located on the Janiculum Hill in Rome, on extraterritorial property of the Holy See.
From its beginnings, the Urbaniana has always been an academic institution with a missionary character that has served the Catholic Church through the formation of missionaries and experts in the area of Missiology or other disciplines, necessary in the evangelizational activity of the Church.
The origins of the university date back to Pope Urban VIII who decided to establish a new college with his papal bull Immortalis Dei Filius of August 1, 1627. Pope Urban saw that it was necessary to establish a central seminary for the missions where young priests could be educated, both for countries which had no national college, but also those that did. A central international college would allow priests to make acquaintances and form mutually helpful relationships in other countries. The new college was called the Collegium Urbanum from the name of its founder and placed under the immediate direction of the Congregation of Propaganda (now called the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples).
After the College's foundation, a certain Spanish prelate by the name of Batta Vives donated a suitable building for the purpose near the Piazza di Spagna. Under Pope Alexander VII, the Church of the Three Magi was added to the building. Vives established six free scholarships, to which were later added foundations by other pontiffs and prelates, especially Innocent XII, Clement XII, and the brother of Urban VIII, Cardinal Antonio Barberini.
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