The Congregation

Congregation

The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (De Propaganda Fide) and its Historical Archive The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples, historically known as De Propaganda Fide, is one of the Dicasteries that make up the Roman Curia, ie, "all of the Dicasteries and organisms that help the Roman Pontiff in the exercise of his supreme pastoral office for the good and the service of the universal Church and the particular Churches, It thus strengthens the unity of faith and...

Urban College

The Pontifical Urbanian College "de Propaganda Fide" was born from the proposals and initiatives of some religious and ecclesiasticals who, in front of the new missionary situation of the world, hoped at the beginning of the seventeenth century, for the creation of a Formation Center for missionaries "ad gentes". Pope Urban VIII ordered with a brief on January 27, 1624 the investment of money and the delivery of Ferratini building (in Piazza di Spagna); with the Bull...

Polyglot Typography

Details of the establishment of the Polyglot Typography are visible in the acts of the general Congregation held on 3 June 1626. In the same year, Emperor Ferdinand II gave to Propaganda Fide "the Illyrian characters of St. Jerome and St. Cyril," that is Western and Cyrillic Glagolitic, respectively. With these characters, from Austria to Rome via Ancona, and with the addition of other Greek and Latin characters found in Rome, Giovanni Bandini and Francesco Paolini, correctors of the...