Pontifical Urbaniana University
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The Pontifical Urbaniana University (Latin: Pontificia Universitas Urbaniana) is a pontifical university belonging to the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples. The origins of the university date back to Pope Urban VIII with his papal bull Immortalis Dei Filius. The Pontifical Urbaniana University was endowed with the title “Pontifical” with the motu proprio Fidei Propagandae of Pope John XXIII, on October 1, 1962. The university had about 1400 students in 2004.
The university is located on the Janiculum Hill in Rome. The university's mission is to train priests, religious brothers and sisters, and lay people for service as missionaries. While the university is owned and operated by the Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, who's Cardinal Prefect is ex officio the Chancellor of the university, as a seminary, it is regulated by the Congregation for Catholic Education.
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