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Universidad Central de Venezuela

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    • Caracas, Venezuela, Venezuela
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The origin of the university goes back to Friar Antonio González de Acuña (1620-1682), a Peruvian Bishop who studied theology at the Universidad de San Marcos and founded in 1673 the Seminary Saint Rose of Lima named after the first Catholic Saint born in the Americas. In the following years, Friar Diego de Baños y Sotomayor, broaden the scope of the seminary by creating the School and Seminary of Saint Rose of Lima in 1696. Yet, in spite of the creation of the seminar, students who wished to obtain a university degree had to travel great distances to attend universities located in Santo Domingo, Santa Fe de Bogotá or Mexico city. Given such harsh circumstances, the Rector of the Seminary, Francisco Martínez de Porras and the people of Caracas requested the royal court in Madrid the creation of a university in Venezuela (then part of the Viceroyalty of New Granada). As a result, on 22 December 1721 Philip V of Spain emitted in Lerma a Royal Decree that transformed the School-Seminary into the Universidad Real y Pontificia de Caracas. The Royal Decree was concurred by Pope Innocent XIII with a Papal bull in 1722. The university offered degrees in Philosophy, Theology, Canon law and Medicine. Until 1810, when the Seminary of Saint Bonaventura located in Mérida became the Universidad de Los Andes, the Universidad Real y Pontificia de Caracas was the only university existing in the country. ^[1]

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• Teachers (Where are they now?)
  • Alba, Olga (March 1972 - September 1978)
  • Benavides Iglesias, Alfonso (January 1995 - Present)
  • Buvat, David (September 1994 - November 2004)
  • Cabrera, David (October 2007 - December 2020)
  • Carolina Marchese-Marchese, Carolina (September 1996 - February 2002)
  • De Elguezabal, Edurne (October 1996 - December 2004)
  • Escobar, Félix (March 1981 - Present)
  • Fereda, Silvia Marina (February 1980 - November 1986)
  • Guanchez, Oscar (January 2004 - March 2009)
  • Ivimas, Alejandro José (March 1983 - April 1989)
  • León, Oneida (March 2002 - Present)
  • Linares-Del Castillo, Luis Alfredo (October 1993 - August 2003)
  • Malaver-Rodriguez, Anibal Jose (September 1965 - July 1973)
  • Martínez, Jorge (January 2003 - December 2003)
  • Martínez, José Tadeo (October 2000 - Present)
  • Ruiz-Otero, Daniel Alejandro (October 1973 - June 1998)
  • Valverde, Mauricio (March 1986 - July 1994)
  • Vernet, Agueda Dolores (February 1991 - Present)
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