Alphonsian Academy

St. Alphonsus de Liguori, whose teachings inspired the establishment of the Academy.

The Alphonsian Academy is a pontifical institution of higher education in Rome, Italy.

The Academy is a theology study institute. Its establishment was inspired by the teachings of St. Alphonsus de Liguori.^[1]

The Alphonsian Academy was founded in 1949 by the Redemptorists. Since 1960, the Academy has specialized in moral theology as a part of the Faculty of Theology of the Pontifical Lateran University. The Academy grants both the licentiate and the doctoral degrees in Moral Theology.

Students of note

• Carl Frederick Mengeling (1930 - )
• Severino Poletto (1933 - )
• Charles E. Curran (1934 - )
• Francesco Cardinal Coccopalmerio (1938 - )
• Joseph Charron (1939-)
• Oscar Andres Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga (1942 - )
• Polycarp Cardinal Pengo (1944 - )
• John Clayton Nienstedt (1947-)
• Luigi Padovese (1947 – 2010)
• James D. Conley (1955 - )
• Bryan Massingale (1957 - )
• Michael Sis (1960 - )
• Peter Comensoli (1960 - )
• Wojciech Polak (1964 - )
• Michael Fors Olson (1966 - )

See also

• Radio Maryja is a radio station owned by the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer and run by Redemptorists.
• The teen magazine, Face Up
• Holy Redeemer College, housing for The Catholic University of America

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Redemptorists.

• Official website
• Pope John Paul II. "Address to the Members of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer", December 15, 1997
• Pope John Paul II. "Address to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer", October 3, 2003

Pontifical universities in Rome
Universities	University Antonianum Gregorian University Lateran University Salesian University University of the Holy Cross University of St. Thomas Aquinas Urban University
Academies	Academy of Arcadia Alphonsian Academy Fine Arts and Letters of the Virtuosi al Pantheon Sciences Theology Archaeology Martyrs St. Thomas Aquinas Immaculate Conception Mary Life Social Sciences Latin
Other	Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum Pontificio Ateneo Sant Anselmo Pontifical Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies Pontifical Biblical Institute The Pontifical Colleges Institute of the Theology of the Consecrated Life Claretianum Pontifical Theological Faculty Marianum Pontifical John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Pontifical Oriental Institute Pastorale Universitaria Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum Patristic Institute Augustinianum
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