University of Paris Faculty of Theology
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The Faculty of Theology of Paris is one of the four faculties of the former University of Paris. Closed in 1793, it was reborn in 1808 as the Catholic theology faculty of Paris within the Académie de Paris of the Imperial University of France. In 1877, the Faculty of Protestant Theology was also created following the loss of Alsace-Lorraine and the Strasbourg theology faculty. It was abolished in 1885 and replaced by a new section in « Religious studies » of the École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE). Jean Mulot was its last dean. It was based at the Sorbonne and its premises were inherited by the École Nationale des Chartes. A new theology faculty, called the Theologicum, was created in 1889 by Pope Leo XIII within the Catholic University of Paris to replace the public Catholic theology faculty. To this day, this faculty retains the traditions of the theology faculty of the former College of Sorbonne, founded in the 12th century.
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