Our University is the oldest still existing Hungarian universitas. Its founder, Péter Pázmány, was the most influential figure of the 17th century Catholic palingenesis, whose works prepared the way for the fame of the Hungarian literary language. During the Turkish occupation, Pázmány acted "according to the desolate state of the country", when, keeping an eye on the welfare of the whole country, for the sake of the elevation of the nation, he established the university by his founding letter of 12 May 1635, which is significant in the history of the Hungarian educational system and chuch culture. Our University was awakened from its sleep during the change of the political system in 1990. This was the time for the Catholic Church to act according to its vocation in terms of higher education. The old-new institution was born through the expansion of the Academy of Theology. The Conference of the Hungarian Catholic Bishops founded Pázmány Péter Catholic University through the establishment of the Faculty of Humanities on 30th January 1992 with the license of the Apostolic Holy See. The Hungarian Parliament registered this Faculty in January 1993, and in 1995 the Conference of Hungarian Catholic Bishops established the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences, which similarly received state recognition.