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Universidad Católica de San Pablo

Private University in Peru

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ6156384 ↗
Source-derived summary

San Pablo Catholic University (Spanish: Universidad Católica San Pablo, UCSP) is a private university in Arequipa, Peru. Owned by the Sodalitium Christianae Vitae, it was founded in 1997.

The university has two campuses, one in Salaverry avenue, and one in Campiña Paisajista urb. As of 2009, it hosted 5,000 students. In addition, the university runs a number of research centers and institutes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Universidad Católica de San Pablo” as private University in Peru. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Universidad, Católica and Pablo.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2009—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Universidad, Católica and Pablo providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Universidad Católica de San Pablo”, the useful work is to connect “private University in Peru” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6156384. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2009.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Universidad Católica de San Pablo primary sources, Universidad Católica de San Pablo archive and Universidad research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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This entry incorporates text from “Universidad Católica de San Pablo” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.