Pontifical Oriental Institute

The Pontifical Oriental Institute or "Orientale" ("Pontificium Institutum Orientalium" in Latin, "Pontificio Instituto Orientale" in Italian) is the premier center for the study of Eastern Christianity in Rome, Italy.

Established in 1917 by Pope Benedict XV

The Institute was entrusted to the Society of Jesus in 1922 by Pope Pius XI and the 1928 encyclical "Rerum Orientalium", encouraged bishops to send students to the Institute to be formed as future professors in Oriental studies. In that same year Piux XI formed the Gregorian Consortium through an association of three institutes: The Pontifical Oriental Institute, The Pontifical Gregorian University, and the Pontifical Biblical Institute.

All three institutions belong to the Holy See and are entrusted to the Society of Jesus.
 * Michel d'Herbigny
 * George Nedungatt
 * John D. Faris
 * Dimitri Salachas
 * Robert F. Taft
 * Cyril Vasiľ
 * Ivan Žužek

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