Ecclesiastical university
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An ecclesiastical university is a special type of higher education school recognised by the Canon law of the Catholic Church. It is one of two types of universities recognised, the other type being the Catholic university. Every single ecclesiastical university is a pontifical university, while only a few Catholic universities are pontifical.
Some independent institutions, schools or university faculties, even at non-pontifical universities, can be ecclesiastical institutes, ecclesiastical schools or ecclesiastical faculties and may also be given charters by the Holy See to grant ecclesiastical degrees, usually in one or two specific fields.
Ecclesiastical universities are licensed to grant ecclesiastical degrees in:
- Theology, including biblical studies and Church history
- Ecclesiastical Philosophy
- Canon Law
These ecclesiastical degrees are prerequisites to certain offices in the Roman Catholic Church, especially considering that bishop candidates are selected mainly from priests who are doctors of sacred theology (S.T.D.) or canon law (J.C.D.) and that ecclesiastical judges and attorneys must at least be licentiates of canon law (J.C.L.).
Ecclesiastical universities and faculties[]
Argentina[]
- , San Miguel
Australia[]
- Catholic Institute of Sydney, Sydney
Brazil[]
- Faculdade Jesuíta de Filosofia e Teologia, Belo Horizonte
Cameroon[]
- Catholic Institute of Yaoundé, Catholic University of Central Africa, Yaoundé
Canada[]
- , Université Laval, Québec
- Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto. It uniquely among all ecclesiastical faculties grants the licentiate in Medieval Studies (L.M.S., a post-doctorate earned degree), and the doctorate (M.S.D.) which is awarded on the basis of a career. It is an independent research institute at the University of Toronto.
- Regis College, University of Toronto, Toronto
Chile[]
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, Santiago
- Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso, Valparaiso
China[]
- Holy Spirit Seminary, Wong Chuk Hang, Hong Kong
Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo)[]
- , Kinshasa
Croatia[]
- , Zagreb
Dominican Republic[]
- , Santo Domingo
France[]
- Institut Catholique de Paris, Paris
- Centre Sèvres, Paris
Germany[]
- Sankt Georgen Graduate School of Philosophy and Theology, Frankfurt
Hungary[]
- , Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest
India[]
- , Pune
- , Alwaye, Kerala
- , Kottayam
- St. Peter's Pontifical Institute of Philosophy and Theology, Bangalore
- , Bangalore
- , Dehli
- , Chennai
- , Ranchi
Indonesia[]
- , Yogyakarta
Ireland[]
- Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Dublin.
Israel[]
- École Biblique (et Archéologique Française), Jerusalem
- Studium Biblicum Franciscanum, Jerusalem
Italy[]
- Patristic Institute Augustinianum, Roma
- Marianum (Pontifical Institute for the study of Mariology), Roma
- Pontifical Biblical Institute, Roma
- Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Roma
- Pontifical Oriental Institute, Roma
- Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum, Roma
- John Paul II Pontifical Theological Institute for Marriage and Family Sciences, Roma
- Pontificio Ateneo Sant Anselmo, Roma
- Pontifical North American College, Roma
- , Cagliari
- Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music, Milano
- Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano & Roma
Lebanon[]
- , Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik, Jounieh
Malta[]
- , Tal-Virtù
Nigeria[]
- Catholic Institute of West Africa, Port Harcourt
Philippines[]
- The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, The Catholic University of the Philippines, Manila; founded in 1611 - with three Ecclesiastical Faculties of Theology, Philosophy and Canon Law; and the Incorporated Institute of Consecrated Life, Asia, all of which are conferring ecclesiastical degrees in three cycles (Bachelor, Licentiate, Doctorate).
- Loyola School of Theology, Ateneo de Manila University, Quezon City; A Faculty of Theology.
Poland[]
- , Warsaw
- , Wrocław
- Pontifical University of John Paul II, Wrocław
Spain[]
- , Madrid
- , Barcelona
Switzerland[]
- , Lugano
- , University of Lucerne, Luzern
- , Chur
United Kingdom[]
- Mater Ecclesiae College, London; Also formerly Heythrop College, University of London
United States[]
- Boston College School of Theology and Ministry (at Boston College), Brighton, MA
- Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception (at the Dominican House of Studies), Washington, DC
- Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University (at Santa Clara University), Berkeley, CA
- The Marian Library/International Marian Research Institute (at the University of Dayton), Dayton, OH
- Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, OH
- Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family (at The Catholic University of America), Washington, DC
- School of Canon Law (at the Catholic University of America), Washington, DC
- The School of Philosophy (at the Catholic University of America), Washington, DC
- School of Theology and Religious Studies (at the Catholic University of America), Washington, DC
- Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI - offers both the S.T.B. and S.T.L through its aggregation with Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy
- St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, NY – the seminary for the Archdiocese of New York grants bachelor of Sacred Theology (S.T.B.) degrees under its charter as a satellite of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome, Italy.
- St. Mary's Seminary and University, Baltimore, MD
- Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology (at the University of Saint Mary of the Lake), Mundelein, IL
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- Pontifical universities
- Catholic seminaries
- Catholic universities and colleges
- Types of university or college