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  • Photo by Edgar Beltrán, The Pillar. CC BY-SA 4.0. Via Wikimedia Commons, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pope_Leo_XIV_3_(cropped).jpg
    Pope Leo XIV
    Pope Leo XIV (born Robert Francis Prevost ) is the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was elected pope in the 2025 conclave on May 8, 2025, following the death of P...
  • Basil Iwanyk
    Basil Iwanyk is an American film producer. He is the founder of Thunder Road Films and most known for the films Sicario, The Town, Greenland and the John Wick franchise. His films have earned more than...
  • Michael Rubin
    Michael Gary Rubin (/ˈruːbɪn/, ROO-bin; born July 21, 1972) is an American businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Fanatics, a global digital sports platform that consists of several businesses, in...
  • Captain David A. Christian
    David A. Christian (born October 26, 1948) is an American who served in the United States Army as a captain during the Vietnam War. While serving as a lieutenant in South Vietnam, he was wounded in a...
  • Buddy Cianci (1941 - 2016)
    Vincent Albert "Buddy" Cianci Jr. (/siˈænsi/, see-AN-see; Italian pronunciation: [%CB%88t%CA%83ant%CA%83i], CHAHN-chee; April 30, 1941 – January 28, 2016) was an American politician, attorney, radio ...

Villanova University is a private Catholic research university in Villanova, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded by the Order of Saint Augustine in 1842 and named after Saint Thomas of Villanova. The university is the oldest Catholic university in Pennsylvania and one of two Augustinian institutions of higher learning in the United States (the other being Merrimack College).

The university traces its roots to the old Saint Augustine's Church, Philadelphia, which the Augustinian friars of the Province of Saint Thomas of Villanova founded in 1796, and to its parish school, Saint Augustine's Academy, which was established in 1811. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)