Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 by F. Jorge Dintilhac SS.CC. as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning. Academically, PUCP ranks second in Peru, behind the National University of San Marcos.
The University received the title of "Pontificia" in 1942 from Pope Pius XII. In 1986, the University confer...
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Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (Spanish: Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, PUCP) is a private university in Lima, Peru. It was founded in 1917 by F. Jorge Dintilhac SS.CC. as Peru's first non-profit private institution of higher learning. Academically, PUCP ranks second in Peru, behind the National University of San Marcos.
The University received the title of "Pontificia" in 1942 from Pope Pius XII. In 1986, the University conferred the academic title of Doctor Honoris causa to Cardinal Archbishop of Munich and Freising Joseph Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI).
However, in October 2011, Cardinal Peter Erdo, 59, Metropolitan Archbishop of Esztergom-Budapest, President of the Hungarian Episcopal Conference, and Primate of Hungary (and the second-youngest Cardinal), was named Apostolic Visitor to the College after it refused to assent to the principles that were originally laid down in the Apostolic Exhortation, "Ex Corde Ecclesiae" of Blessed Pope John Paul II as...
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