On June 5, the ceremony for the investiture of 170 new doctors of the University of Navarra took place at the classroom Magna del Central. Fourteen of them belong to the Ecclesiastical Schools and come from eleven different countries.

With this investiture, according to Alfonso Sánchez Tabernero, President of the University of Navarra, the new doctors acquire a new responsibility, because they become part of the academic staff that has as mission statement "to transmit knowledge to the young students that every year fill our university classrooms".

Our hope," he added, "is that from now on you will spread the 'seal of the University of Navarra', which is transmitted through a demanding way of working, manager and helpful, facing problems with courage; seeking the truth that will lead us to always put the common good before the good staff".

On behalf of the Ecclesiastical Schools , Juan Chapa was present, Dean of the School of TheologyJorge Otaduy, Associate Dean of the School of Canon Law and Rubén Pereda, director of programs of study of the School Ecclesiastic of Philosophy.

The new doctors are:

School of Theology

Ricardo Vladimir Fernández Sanabria (Peru). thesis The biological data in the moral reflection on nascent human life".

Milton George (India). thesis A comparative study on Hindu-Christian sacrifices".

Isabel María León Sanz (Spain) thesis : "El arte creador en San Buenaventura. Foundations for a theology of beauty".

Gerald Mwenyi Nalyanya Wabukenda (Kenya). thesis The reception of the apostolic exhortation Familiaris Consortio by anglo saxon authors".

Francisco Javier Pueyo Velasco (Spain). thesis The intramundane fullness of the Kingdom of God in the history of theology".

Adolfo Luis Qüerio Casas (Argentina). thesis The theological-moral thought of Charles R. Pinches".

Andrés Pedro Rant Lesar (Argentina). thesis The Argentinean State-Church Relations (1943-1955)".

Andrew Patrick Soane (United Kingdom). thesis Frank Sheed and his world. Popular apologetics in twentieth century England".

School of Canon Law

Christina M. Hip-Flores (USA). thesis Ordo Viduarum: Consecrated Widows in Canon Law.

Reynold Oliveros Humady (Philippines). thesis Fulfillment of eccesiastical functions".

Carlos Luis Paez Lucero (Guatemala). thesis The economic budget in the CIC of 1983".

Jaime Vázquez Sánchez (Mexico). thesis The co-responsibility. A right-duty of every Christian faithful in the light of c. 222§1 of the CIC".

School Ecclesiastical Philosophy

José Carlos Fernández Duarte (El Salvador). thesis Love, justice and relationship. instructions of the Economics according to the encyclical Charitas in veritate".

Jorge Martín Montoya Camacho (Peru). thesis Freedom, love and truth in Harry Frankfurt's theory of action.

Photo gallery of the doctoral inauguration ceremony of the University of Navarra 2015.