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 | | Tomas envisions itself to be a truly educative and evangelizing Christian community, dedicated to teaching, research and community service, with a faculty and studentry enjoying global acceptability and a tradition of excellence, in the service even as it opens up and reaches out to the Asia-Pacific rim and the rest of the world. |
 | | Thus, at different times, universities were established by the Dominican Fathers in the Spanish Isle of Santo Domingo (now the Dominican Republic); in Lima, Peru; in Bogota, Colombia; in Quito, Ecuador; and in Havana, Cuba. |
 | | In the Bull "In supereminenti" of November 20, 1645, Pope Innocent X elevated the college to a University, with the power to confer the proper degrees in the aforementioned Faculties upon intellectually and morally qualified students. |
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