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Universitat Abat Oliba | |
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| Motto | Viam sapientiæ monstrabo |
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| Type | Private |
| Established | 2003 |
| Affiliation | Catholic CEU |
| Rector | Rafael Rodriguez-Ponga y Salamanca[1] |
| Students | 3.200 |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Bellesguard |
| Website | uaoceu |
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Abat Oliba CEU University (official name: Universitat Abat Oliba CEU; UAO CEU) is a private university located in Barcelona, Spain.[2] It was founded in 1973 as the Abat Oliba College. In 2003, the Parliament of Catalonia approved its conversion to Abat Oliba CEU University. The university adopts the name of Abbot Oliba, Count of Berga and Ripoll, bishop of Vic, and founder of Montserrat because "aimed at making its spirit who established a thousand years the foundations of emerging Catalonia based on Roman and Christian culture".[3]
Abbot Oliba is considered a key figure in the repopulation of Catalonia based on Roman and Christian culture, and political pacifism and his assemblies of Peace and Truce of God laid the groundwork for one of the first parliaments in Europe.[4]
It is one of the three Spanish universities belonging to the Centro de Estudios Universitarios CEU educational group. It belongs to the Catholic Association of Propagandists, an institution created in 1908 by the Jesuit priest Ángel Ayala.
The main campus of the UAO CEU is the Bellesguard Campus, in the district of Sarrià-Sant Gervasi. The architect Miquel Àngel Armengou, based in Barcelona, designed and built the university around the church at its centre
- ^ Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga es el nuevo rector de la Universidad Abat Oliba CEU. Rafael Rodríguez-Ponga es el nuevo rector de la Universidad Abat Oliba CEU. Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ^ "Universitat Abat Oliba CEU". Registro de Universidades, Centros y Títulos (RUCT) (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ^ Principles and mission, "Principles and mission, Abat Oliba CEU University". Retrieved February 19, 2021.
- ^ "El abad OLIBA preside la primera asamblea de la "Paz y Tregua de Dios" que se celebra en el condado del Rosellón". puzzledelahistoria.com. Retrieved 3 December 2023.