Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas - Angelicum Information

The Pontificia Università S. Tommaso d'Aquino in Urbe (Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas), popularly known as “the Angelicum,” is an international center of learning in the historic center of Rome, Italy. Among the Angelicum’s distinguished alumni are Fr. Karol Józef Wojtyła (Pope St. John Paul II) & the Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. The same class rooms where they studied Theology are still in daily use by our 1, 200 professors and students coming from over 90 countries. The university is run by the Dominicans (Order of Preachers) and has faculties of Theology, Philosophy, Canon Law, and Social Sciences, along with a Higher Institute of Religious Sciences, Mater Ecclesiae. The foundation of the Angelicum goes back to the XIII century (1265) medieval Dominican house of studies in Rome (at Santa Sabina), where St. Thomas Aquinas taught friars in formation for the Dominican priesthood. While many students are preparing for ordination to the priesthood or for a ministry in the Church, there is a rapidly growing number of lay students. All carry a commitment of dedication and service to Jesus Christ and his Church to engage the culture using the wisdom of the “doctor communis,” Saint Thomas Aquinas. Today the Angelicum remains committed to preserving the heritage of St. Thomas Aquinas as a vital force in theological and philosophical scholarship and in the teaching of classical Roman Catholic Theology. In Fall 2018, the university renovated the Thomistic Institute - Angelicum in order to promote the study of St. Thomas at the heart of the Church. This new institute fosters theological research and engagement with other philosophical and theological traditions, as well as contemporary sciences. In Fall 2019, the university opened the Institute for Ecumenical Studies under the patronage of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. The Angelicum is the only pontifical university in Rome to have Eucharistic Adoration each day of class.