The investiture ceremony of 271 new doctors of the University of Navarra took place on May 27 at the classroom Magna del Central, the largest to date. Their sponsor was Professor Ángel J. Gómez Montoro. Sixteen of them belong to the Ecclesiastical Schools and come from eight different countries.

A "day of celebration" at the University of Navarra, as stressed by President, Alfonso Sánchez-Tabernero, in his congratulatory speech , delivered in the auditorium of the Museum. "We feel joyful because you have reached a goal; and hopeful because that work well done is a promise of great fruits at the service of society." He also recalled the fundamental role that PhDs have in the University: "For there to be an authentic institutional culture, it is not enough for the governing bodies to precisely define the identity and goals of the organization. What is really needed is for each member, each professor,to make the institutional purpose of the University his or her own. Only then will the theoretical identity be the real identity, expressed in the life of the organization," he concluded.

The three deans of the Schools ecclesiastical departments were present: Professor Juan Chapa, of the School of TheologyProfessor Antonio Viana, from the School of Canon Law and Professor Sergio Sánchez-Migallón, of the School Ecclesiastic of Philosophy.

The new doctors are:

School of Theology

• Luis Ramón Quesada Béjar (Spain)

degree scroll from the thesis : "The spiritual theology of work around the Second Vatican Council". Defended on June 17, 2015

• Carlos Andrés Varela Vega (Uruguay)

degree scroll from the thesis : "Three fundamental concepts in the liturgical-post-conciliar discussion : historia salutis - mysterium paschale - logiké latreía". Defended on June 18, 2015.

• Stanislaw Adam Urmanski (Poland)

degree scroll from the thesis : "The Ravenna Document. Papal primacy in Catholic-Orthodox dialogue". Defended on June 24, 2015.

• David Galarza Fernández (Spain)

degree scroll from the thesis : "Tracking in morality. Scheler and Tillmann." Defended on September 22, 2015.

• Daniel Ricardo de Boni Argenta (Brazil)

degree scroll of the thesis : "A Teologia da missão nas obras de São Gregório Magno". Defended on September 23, 2015.

• Ignacio Mirón López (Spain)

degree scroll of the thesis : "The spirituality of marriage in the theology of the body of St. John Paul II". Defended on September 29, 2015

• Miguel García Manglano (Spain)

degree scroll from the thesis : "Christian thinking around moral responsibility in drug use". Defended on December 11, 2015

• Charles Ndaka Salabisala (Democratic Republic of the Congo)

degree scroll of the thesis : "Les points majeurs du débat théologique dans la litterature francophone autour du sacrement de confirmation après le Concile Vatican II". Defended on February 2, 2016

• Fernando Lorenzo Naya Sarsa (Spain)

degree scroll from the thesis : "The doctrine of purgatory in the theological development ". Defended on February 23, 2016

• Ricardo Spuch Redondo (Spain)

degree scroll from thesis : "José María Blanco White: from orthodoxy to dissidence. History of a conscience". Defended on April 12, 2016

• Rubén Mestre Andrés (Spain)

degree scroll of the thesis : "Christian initiation in the teaching of Blessed Ildefonse Schuster (1880-1954)". Defended on May 24, 2016.

School of Canon Law

• Elizar A. Cielo (Philippines)

degree scroll from the thesis : 'Care and stewardship over administration of ecclesiastical goths'. Defended on 11 June 2015.

• Claudio Minakata Urzúa (Mexico)

degree scroll of the thesis : "Nature and effects of the canonical mission statement in the ecclesiastical organization". Defended on June 25, 2015

• Jaime Homero Portillo Gill (Mexico)

degree scroll of the thesis : "The loss of the clerical state according to the assumptions contained in c. 290. History and exegesis". Defended on May 20, 2016.

School Ecclesiastical Philosophy

• Ana Encarnación Lozano Martín (Spain)

degree scroll of the thesis : "Freedom as a condition of possibility of human growth according to Antonio Millán-Puelles". Defended on June 19, 2015

• Nicolás Vergara Correa (Chile)

degree scroll from the thesis : "The existentialist thought of Luigi Pareyson". Defended on February 25, 2016