The San Luigi Papal Theological Seminary of Southern Italy (Italian: ''Pontificia Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia Meridionale, San Luigi'') is an institution of higher learning in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

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. It is located prominently on via Petrarca in the

Posillipo Posillipo (; nap, Pusilleco ) is an affluent residential quarter of Naples, southern Italy, located along the northern coast of the Gulf of Naples. From the 1st century BC the Bay of Naples witnessed the rise of villas constructed by elite Roma ...

section of the city. The institute confers higher degrees in ecclesiastical studies on behalf of the

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. The school took its present form in 1969 through a fusion of two university religious departments: the Neapolitan Theology Department of the

University of Naples The University of Naples Federico II ( it, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II) is a public university in Naples, Italy. Founded in 1224, it is the oldest public non-sectarian university in the world, and is now organized into 26 depar ...

(Italian: ''Facoltà Teologica Napoletana'') and the

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' San Luigi Theology College (Italian: ''Facoltà Teologica San Luigi''). Other religious institutions in southern Italy have become affiliated since then, including the Theological Institute of Calabria (Italian: ''Istituto Teologico Calabro'') and the Theological Institute of Puglia (Italian: ''Istituto Teologico Pugliese'').

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