READY TO WELCOME YOU It’s not a slogan. It’s a promise and a commitment, shared in hope and in fidelity to the mission we have been entrusted with
WHY ROME? Why study in Rome, despite the difficulties? As the Holy Father Francis reminded us when he received us in audience: “Here there is a past and there is a present. There are the roots of faith: the memory of the Apostles and of the Martyrs; and here there is the ecclesial ‘today’, there is the present journey of this Church which presides in charity, at the service of unity and universality. All of this should not be taken for granted! It must be experienced and appreciated, with a commitment that is partly institutional and partly personal, left to the initiative of each one.” (Paul VI Audience Hall, 10 April 2014).
STUDIES Many study programmes may start either in the first semester (October) or in the second semester (February) of the academic year. The civil recognition of academic ecclesiastical degrees – Baccalaureate, Licentiate and Doctorate – is regulated by bilateral agreements and multilateral conventions, including the Lisbon Convention (1997), the Tokyo Convention (2011), the Addis Ababa Convention (2014) and the Buenos Aires Convention (2019), all ratified by the Holy See. As an ecclesiastical university, the Gregorian University is subject to evaluation by the Holy See’s Agency for the Evaluation and Promotion of Quality in Ecclesiastical Universities and Faculties (AVEPRO).
THE LIBRARY The Library of the Pontifical Gregorian University reopened to the public on 18 May 2020, the first day of Italy’s restart program (Phase 2). The Library has a patrimony of approximately 500,000 volumes, 150,000 items from the Periodicals Collection and five reading rooms. The Library is equipped with a user identification system to allow access to electronic resources including remote access. Over the last few months its patrimony has been further enriched by new databases and e-book collections. A new live chat service offers assistance regarding the Library’s services and resources. Additionally, each semester the Library offers onsite and online User Education sessions for students and teachers, so as to enhance the user-friendliness of its research tools.
