Faculty of Theology of Granada

The Faculty of Theology of Granada is a private university teaching center belonging to the Catholic Church, created in 1939 and dependent on the Society of Jesus. It has its headquarters in the University campus of Cartuja de Granada and its aims are the investigation and teaching of Theology and other related sciences. It can confer academic degrees in these matters with authority of the Holy See. Established in 1544 by the Society of Jesus in Granada, and in the center of formation for students of the Company created in 1894 in the vicinity of the monastery of Cartuja of the same locality, was founded in 1939 Under the influence of the Archbishop of Granada, Cardinal Parrado, who had been requesting from Rome the creation of a training center for the priests of the Archdiocese some years ago. It was established in the Colegio Máximo de Cartuja, a building constructed from 1891 and inaugurated in 1894, with Jesuit professors coming from diverse centers of the Bética province, arrived in Granada in 1937, after the expulsion decreed by the government of the Republic in 1932, That had dispersed them by different formative centers of the Company in Germany, Belgium and France. Cardinal Parrado put the formation of the archdiocesan seminarians in the hands of the faculty from October 1939. Later, in 1946, the new archbishop, Balbino Santos Olivera, withdrew the Jesuits from the leadership of the seminary, which he commissioned To diocesan priests of the regular clergy, although maintaining the Faculty as a center of philosophical and theological formation.