In June 1988, the establishment of the Ecclesiastical School of Philosophy was approved. A year earlier, the Chancellor, Blessed Álvaro del Portillo, had requested its creation based on the Philosophy Department of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences.

Classes at the new faculty began on October 4, 1988. The two-year high school diploma offered at the School of Ecclesiastical Studies; and students pursuing a licentiate degree class those in the Philosophy and Letters program, except for a few specific courses.

thesis As early as the beginning of the 1990s, the first doctoral dissertations were defended at School.

In 1991 the first issue of "Cuadernos doctorales de Philosophy" was published, a magazine of the School where the extracts of the defended doctoral thesis are collected. It has been published annually, uninterruptedly, until today.

In 1997 the Holy See approved the establishment of the high school of Religious Sciences (ISCR). From the beginning, the School has actively collaborated in the teaching and direction of this high school.

In addition, in 1998 the high school of Anthropology and Ethics (IAE) was established for the promotion and encouragement of the humanistic training in the Academic Centers of the University. Professors from School also collaborate in the teaching of high school.

In 2002, the interdisciplinary group Science, Reason and Faith (CRYF) was created, whose first director was Mariano Artigas. The CRYF is made up of professors and researchers from School, Science, Philosophy and Letters and Medicine.

In 2006 Mariano Artigas, the first Dean of the School and director of the CRYF, passed away. The following year, the School held an academic event 'In memoriam' in his honor and presented him with the Silver Medal of the University at degree scroll posthumously.

On November 27, 2008, on the occasion of the X of the publication of the encyclical 'Fides et ratio', an academic workshop was organized with the participation of several experts and professors of the School and of Philosophy and Letters.

In May 2009, a workshop was held in London at report by Mariano Artigas, organized by the CRYF, the School and the 'Thomas More Institute' of London. It was attended by internationally renowned academics such as Roger Trigg and Thomas F. Glick, among others. As a result of this meeting the publishing house Ashgate published a Issue with the interventions of some of the participants ("Science and Faith within Reason").

In 2011, the I Mariano Artigas Memorial Lecture was held, an initiative of the CRYF that is held every two years to remember his figure and his contribution to the dialogue between science and faith.

The I Mariano Artigas Lecture was given at position by Prof. Willian Shea.

In application of the reform of the programs of study of the ecclesiastical Schools to the Bologna plan, in 2012 the third course of high school diplomaand two specialties were created within the School: Philosophy theorethics and Philosophy of action.

In 2013, the School celebrated its 25th anniversary. By then, a total of 462 students had obtained the Degree from high school program. There had been graduate 234 students, and 137 had obtained the Degree of PhD.

In 2013, the journal 'Scientia et fides' of the Nicolaus Copernicus University of Torun (Poland) started publication at partnership with CRYF.

In 2016, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, the journal edited a monographic Issue on Mariano Artigas, in which 27 scholars from all over the world and from different disciplines participated.

In 2022, the School held the IV International Symposium of the SOFIC (Society of Christian Philosophers), with the topic: "Human body and identity staff".

In 2023 it will have been 35 years since the beginning of School: more than 700 students have attended programs of study ; 75% of them are foreign students, from 43 countries of the five continents.