History

As a theological faculty, Loyola School of Theology (LST) traces its origins to San Jose Seminary, founded in Manila 410 years ago on 25 August 1601. In the mid-1900s, this theological faculty of San Jose Seminary was integrated with the faculty of Berchmans College (the former Philippine Jesuit Philosophate). In 1965, the newly merged theological-philosophical school was transferred to the Loyola House of Studies complex in the Ateneo de Manila campus. In June 1968, LST (under the name of Loyola House of Studies, School of Theology and Ecclesiastical Studies) formally began to function as a federated unit of the Ateneo de Manila University.

On December 1, 1994 the Sacred Congregation for Catholic Education approved the LST Statutes and granted LST definitive aggregation to the Jesuit Faculty of Theology at Fujen University, Taiwan for purposes of granting ecclesiastical degrees.

On August 13, 1999, LST was established as an Ecclesiastical Faculty of Theology by the Congregation for Catholic Education and it was authorized to grant in its own right the ecclesiastical degrees of Bachelor in Sacred Theology, Licentiate in Sacred Theology, and Doctor in Sacred Theology.