Pontifical Urbaniana University

Pontifical Urbaniana University, often referred to simply as the Urbaniana, is an eminent pontifical university located in Rome, Italy.

Founded in 1627 by Pope Urban VIII, this is one of the oldest schools that were created with a view to the missionary work of the Catholic Church. At first named the Urban College, it had been established by the Congregation for Evangelization of Peoples. The original aim of this College was to see that missionaries were educated and formed to go to non-European territories. The Urban College was innovative in particular careers, preparing them for missionary work of really astonishing class. The curriculum prepared by the students was aimed at performing tasks concerning general knowledge, culture, and also control which would lead them towards the evangelization of various regions, often remote ones. Since its foundation, this education with a missionary spirit has been a beacon of the school.

The college broadened further during subsequent centuries, with the subjects of theology, philosophy, canon law, and missiology limited to the Catholic Church's ascending a theoretical framework. This intervention helped to institutionalize the frame and impede it as a premier center for the higher education institution of the Catholic Church. This evolution journey portrays the adaptability of the institution and its real commitment to responding positively to the ebb and flow of the ever-changing needs of the Church and its mission throughout the whole world. Today's students actioning whatever heritage targeting directing the Church represents them proudly into the considerable anachieves' consideration towards it-wide appeal abounding to all students from worldly to divine backgrounds. Maintaining the patches implacably preserving its historic legacies with contemporary cutting-the-edge academic norms has made it livelier in service to the Church, firing the excellence for Catholic educationism.