The Grant Regulations and the Rules of Everyday Life and Activities of the Polish Papal College in Rome in the Second Part of the XXth Century

The Polish Pontifical College was founded in Rome by Pope Pius IX in 1866. In the same year, the broad Regulations were introduced in which the legal status of the college was established and the rules of the functioning of this institution were determined. In 1909, the amendments to the Regulations concerning alumni were added. The next official document defining the rules of the functioning of the college was ‘The Statute and the Regulation’ accepted by the Holy See in the end of 1960. In the Grant Regulations from 1963, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, Primate of Poland, established the rules of the distribution of the funds originating from the United States and The Catholic League Supporting the Church in Poland. The norms and the rules that the Regulations included contributed to the better functioning of the College and improved the use of the grant funds. In the second half of the XXth century, candidates preparing for the priesthood were not directed to the College any long. The College only accepted candidates that were priests sent by the Polish Bishops to Rome to study specialist fields. Throughout the years, the conditionings of the functioning of the church institutions have changed. The new specifics of the functioning of the College were taken into consideration in the Rules and Regulations published by The Polish Episcopate for the Polish Papal College in Rome in 1992, however, the previous Regulations were still valid