The Romanian Pontifical College (Romanian: Colegiul Pontifical Pio Romeno) is a college established by Pope Pius XI for young people from the Romanian Greek Catholic Church who are in various phases of study at the universities of Rome, particularly post-graduates, and including seminarians and priests, many living in the college.
Pope Pius IX established four scholarships for Romanian theological students at the Pontifical Greek College of Saint Athanasius in Rome.
In 1930, Pius XI began to lay the foundations for a college of their own, which was finally inaugurated on 9 March 1937.
The college was visited on 15 May 2015 by President Klaus Iohannis and on 12 May 2018 by Viorica Dăncilă, head of the Romanian government.
[2] In May 2022, Pope Francis held an audience with members of the college to mark the eighty-fifth anniversary of its founding.