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6 unusual facts about Pontifical Gregorian University


Alfredo Petit-Vergel

He started his studies at El Buen Pastor Seminary in Havana and then finished his religious studies in Rome at the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Jack Miles

Born in Chicago, Jack Miles was a Jesuit seminarian from 1960 to 1970, studying at Xavier University in Cincinnati, the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and the Hebrew University in Jerusalem before completing a doctorate in the department of Near Eastern Languages at Harvard.

Jean Laffitte

He attended courses in philosophy and theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University, earning his degrees of Bachelor in Theology and Philosophy in 1988.

Philip Egan

He was awarded his Licentiate in Sacred Theology (STL) from the Pontifical Gregorian University.

Pontifical Gregorian University

David Tracy, influential American Catholic theologian (STL 1964; STD 1969)

Santos Abril y Castelló

In 1961, he went to Rome to study and obtained a doctorate in social sciences at Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum and a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical Gregorian University.


David Kagan

He entered the Salvatorian Seminary in St Nazianz, and then studied philosophy at Loras College/St. Pius X Seminary in Dubuque, and Theology at the Pontifical North American College and Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Dimitri Salachas

He has taught Canon Law (both Latin and Oriental) in Pontifical Urbaniana University, Pontifical Gregorian University, Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum and Pontifical Oriental Institute in Rome.

Emanuel Tov

Served as visiting Professor at the Universities of Oxford, Uppsala, Doshisha (Kyoto), Macquarie and Sydney (Australia), Stellenbosch (South Africa), Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam), University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia), and the Pontifical Gregorian University (Rome).

Javier Lozano Barragán

Born in Toluca, State of México, Lozano Barragán trained as a priest in Zamora, Michoacán, and at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, where he earned a doctorate in theology and was ordained in 1955.

John Bathersby

His first seven years as a priest were spent as an assistant and administrator at Goondiwindi before being sent to Rome in 1969 for further studies where he completed a licentiate in theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University and a diploma in spirituality at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum.

John S. Dunne

He earned an S.T.L. in Sacred Doctrine in 1955 and an S.T.D. in 1958, both from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy.

Joseph Wendel

Joseph Wendel was born in Blieskastel, and studied at the seminary in Speyer, and the Pontifical German-Hungarian College and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre

Joseph-Charles Lefèbvre was born in Tourcoing, and studied at the Catholic University of Lille, and the Pontifical Gregorian University and the Pontifical French Seminary in Rome.

Massimiliano Massimo Institute

In 1870 the Italian Government confiscated the building for the Ennio Quirino Visconti Liceo Ginnasio, with the College's professors and students moving to the nearby palazzo Borromeo until the Pontifical Gregorian University was built to take its university students.

Ratko Perić

He received doctorate from the Pontifical Urbaniana University in 1971, and then taught at Catholic seminaries in Sarajevo, Zagreb, and for several years at the Gregoriana in Rome.


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François-Xavier Dumortier

On 27 April 2010, Pope Benedict XVI announced that the rector of the Pontifical Gregorian University, Gianfranco Ghirlanda, S.J., would be succeeded by Dumortier as the next rector of the university.

Jozef Tomko

He co-founded the religious journal of the Institute of SS Cyril and Methodius, and became a professor at the Pontifical Gregorian University.