Llopis, Joan

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THE FACULTY O F  THEOLOGY 
O F  CATALONIA 
THE FACULTY IS DEVOTED MAINLY TO THE TEACHING AND 
STUDY OF CATHOLIC THEOLOGY AND THE RELATED SCIENCES, 
AND HAS THE POWER TO AWARD FURTHER EDUCATION 
DEGREES. 
J O A N  LLOPlS  D O C T O R  O F  T H E O L O G Y  
C he Faculty of Theology of Catalo- iia is an ecclesiastical centre for further education, officially estab- 
lished in 1968 and descended from two 
previous institutions: the Facultat de Teo- 
logia of the Jesuits, in Sant Cugat del 
Valles, and the Seminan Conciliar of 
Barcelona, at that point affiliated to the 
Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome. 
Because of this double origin, until 1984 
the faculty consisted of two relatively 
independent sections: that of St Francis of 
Borja, in Sant Cugat, and that of St Pacia, 
in Barcelona. As from the date mentioned, 
the Faculty was unified in the building of 
the fomer Seminan Conciliar, Diputació, 
231, right behind the university. 
The faculty is devoted mainly to the 
teaching and study of Catholic theology 
and the related sciences, and holds the 
right to award further education degrees. 
The chancellor is the Archbishop of 
Barcelona, and part of its council is made 
up of al1 the other bishops of Catalonia, 
an abbot, the Jesuit provincial and two 
representatives from the other religious 
congregations. In this way, the faculty de- 
monstrates its wish to serve the whole of 
Catalonia, with the intention of contribut- 
ing to the dialogue between the Catholic 
faith and Catalan culture. There are a 
number of institutions to be found within 
the structure of the Faculty of Theology of 
Catalonia: the lnstitut of Fundamental 
Theology, run by teaching staff from the 
Society of Jesus and based at the Centre 
Borja/ in Sant Cugat del Valles, and the 
Higher Liturgical Centre of Barcelona, 
which is one of the few centres in the 
world able to give higher education 
awards in the liturgical speciality, are two 
of them. The University School for the 
Training of Teachers of Religion is linked 
to the faculty, the Centre for Theological 
Studies of Maiorca is affiliated, and the 
School of Social Sciences of the Catholic 
lnstitute for Social Sciences of Barcelona, 
the lnstitute of Theology of Barcelona and 
the Centre of Christian Thinking, in Man- 
resa, are al1 linked institutions. The Sant 
Cugat lnstitute of Fundamental Theology 
is also responsible for the Boria lnstitute of 
Bioethics and the Seminary of Papyrology. 
The faculty has access to the Episcopal 
Public Library of Barcelona, with some 
350,000 volumes and a remarkable 
collection of antique books, amongst 
which there are five hundred manuscripts, 
a hundred incunabula and two thousand 
sixteenth century volumes. It has an 
arrangement with the library of the Abbey 
of Montserrat, which makes possible the 
exchange of books, and holds the library 
of the barefoot Carmelites in deposit. At 
the Centre Boria in Sant Cugat, there is an 
important library of ecclesiastical sciences, 
which contains more than 350,000 vol- 
umes and subscribes to some 800 spe- 
cialized magazines. In the seminary's 
building in Barcelona, there is a very inter- 
esting Geology Museum, founded in 
1874 by Dr Jaume Almera, which has al- 
ways maintained contact with geological 
centres throughout the world and is open 
to investigators and students of further 
education. 
The activities of the teaching staff at the 
faculty, as well as the purely educational 
tasks, involve a number of written publi- 
cations. Its scientific organ is the Revista 
Catalana de teologia, which has been 
published h ice  a year since 1976, with 
articles on Biblical Exegesis, Patristics, 
Theology, Liturgy, Philosophy and Reli- 
gious Sciences, written in Catalan or in 
any other language and summed up in 
English. The lnstitute of Fundamental 
Theology publishes Actualidad bibliográ- 
fica and Selecciones de teología, of great 
service to students of theology. In con- 
junction with the well-known firm Herder, 
the faculty publishes the Col-ledania Sant 
Pacia, a series of books on advanced 
theological investigations: the last work to 
appear was Historia de la teologia cnstia- 
na, in two volumes, by Father Evangelist 
Vilanova, translated into Castilian and 
soon to be translated into other lan- 
guages. The series Studia, textus, subsidia, 
dedicated to the recovery of texts related 
to the history of theology in the Paijos 
Catalans, is also important, as is the series 
Testimonis litúrgics, which provides the 
Catalan version of the chief liturgical 
documents of the primitive Church. Finally, 
the faculty collaborates in the Sauríseries, 
devoted to works on theology and spiritu- 
ality for the broad public. 


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