Ramon Corts i Blay


Ramon Corts i Blay is a historian priest educated at Theological Seminary of Barcelona. He was ordained in 1979 and currently belongs to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona.
Conducts research in the Vatican Secret Archives on relations between the Holy See and Catalonia. He has published five collections of the Vatican Secret Archives documentation as the bottom of the Apostolic Nunciature of Madrid and Secretary of State and several articles in magazines and broadcasting.

Biography

Ramon Corts i Blay was born on 6 August 1951 in Mataró and has a PhD in Ecclesiastical History. He holds a degree in Philosophy, specialising in Modern History, University of Barcelona and also has a degree in Theology. He was ordained priest on 24 March 1979, in Barcelona.

Studies

In 1982 he obtained a degree in Sacred Theology at the Faculty of Theology of Barcelona. He continued his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome, Faculty of Ecclesiastical History, residing at the Teutonic College of Santa Maria dell'Anima and the Ecclesiastical Convictorio Santa Maria of Monserrato.
He holds a PhD in church history at the Pontifical Gregorian University. He is also graduated in Archive for the Vatican Secret Archives, 1991.

Pastoral, academic and scientific responsibilities

He was professor of religion at the School of Teacher Training Education at the University of Barcelona until 1995 and has taught as a visiting professor at the Faculty of Theology, History and Law at Barcelona and at the Antoni Gaudí School.
In 1997 he was appointed rector of the Theological Seminary of Barcelona and since 2006 is Diocesan Delegate for Education of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona. Since 2010 he is the director of Religious Culture and the Editorial Balmes Barcelona. It is also the rector of the Athenaeum Barcelona Universitari Sant Pacià.
He is the director of the Balmes Library of Barcelona and Analecta Sacra Tarraconensia magazine since 1991. He was co-director of the book :ca:Diccionari d’història eclesiàstica de Catalunya|Diccionari d’història eclesiàstica de Catalunya, under the auspices of the autonomous government of Generalitat de Catalunya. He is patron of Fundació Balmesiana and rector of the Theological Seminary of Barcelona.
He is the rector of the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception since 1999. He is also the rector of the parish of St. Francesc de Sales in Barcelona since 2013, which is a parish group with Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
He is managing director of Education of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Barcelona since 2005 and Director of Foment de Pietat / Cultura religiosa. He is the director of the Classrooms of Ecclesiastical History of Catalonia and head of the Department of History of the Antoni Gaudí Faculty, Archaeology and Christian Art and President of the Center Studies Association Tarraconensia Historical.

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