Installed in Montevideo and in several cities of the interior, the Catholic University of Uruguay is the oldest private university in the country and the most widespread geographically. Initially founded in 1882 by the first Archbishop of Montevideo, Mons. Mariano Soler, reopened and entrusted to the Society of Jesus in 1985, the Catholic University of Uruguay is the main work of the Catholic Church in the field of higher education in Uruguay." The birth of our University was the result of a long process that began in the nineteenth century, through which the Uruguayan Catholic Church claimed, continuously, the constitutional right to freedom of education at all levels, including the university level . a history more accurate and far from 1876, when Fr. Mariano Soler founded the Lyceum University Studies became Free University in 1878, with the approval of the government of the Republic. The foundation of Liceo University Studies is inserted into the great process of redefinition of the attitude of the Catholic Church against the modern world. Through his encyclicals, Pope Leo XIII sought to trace the route that the Church must continue to address the major problems of society in a Christian sense. Catholics attached great importance to the creation of educational establishments. In Uruguay, the Lyceum University Studies was proposed to train young Catholics harmonize science and faith.