Catholic Church. Congregatio Studiorum

After the restoration of the Papal States in 1814, Pius VII appointed a commission of cardinals to organize all the courses of study in the papal territory (motu proprio Quando per ammirabile disposizione, 6 Jul. 1816), and drew up a plan for the "reorganization of the public administration and the tribunals of the papal regions." The pontiff's death in 1823, however, prevented the proposed reorganization from being carried out.

During the following year Leo XII put the reorganization into effect (constitution Quod divina sapientia, 28 Aug 1824). The constitution provided that a Congregatio Studiorum would have authority over all the public and private, lay and ecclesiastical schools both in Rome and throughout the Papal States, and that all universities within the papal territory were to be subject to this congregation. In 1841 Gregory XVI conferred increased powers on the congregation. With Pius IX's motu proprio Quando coi due (29 Dec 1847) the congregation was transformed into what was, in effect, a new juridical body, a "ministero dell'istruzione pubblica" (ID VATV796-A) for the Papal States.

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