The Sapientia College of Theology, Budapest is a new joint institution of three religious orders with great tradition in the Catholic Church. While the theological training of these three orders has a centuries-long history in Hungary, the Benedictines (OSB), the Friars Minor (OFM) and Piarists (SchP) decided to merge their respective Colleges in 1998.

For this reason, the Sapientia College has two aspects: on one hand, it is a young and dynamic academic community, and on the other, it has a vivid tradition of the Catholic faith and a theological heritage drawing from the various spiritualities lived out in the state of the consecrated life.

The College has more than 450 students, attending courses in philosophy, theology, and pedagogy in order to become priests, or teachers of religious education. We offer a BA degree (catechist/pastoral assistant), and various MA degrees: theology, teacher of religious education, teacher of family and child protection, teacher of ethics. The Sapientia is affiliated to the Pontifico Ateneo Sant`Anselmo in Rome, so the students with MA in theology may receive the baccalaurate of Sant`Anselmo. All of our degrees are recognized by the State. In the framework of the Sokrates/Erasmus project of the European Union our students may obtain a scholarship to widen their horizons by studying abroad.

I am deeply convinced that contemporary people, too, thirst after a genuine Christian spirituality, and after a theologically founded knowledge of God. Sapientia would like to help all of them like a "householder who brings out from his storeroom new things as well as old" (Mt 13,52).

fr. Lóránt Orosz, OFM