Rome (Fides Service) - Examine almost four centuries of history in order to open to new horizons with new impulse. "From Urban College to Pontifical Urban University, PUU, 375 years of history" is the theme of a three day seminar 28-30 November at the PUU. Speakers will include Cardinal Crescenzio Sepe, Prefect of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples (CEP) who is Grand Chancellor of the University, Cardinal Francis Arinze, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Archbishop Robert Sarah, Secretary of the CEP and Mons. Ambrogio Spreafico, PUU Rector. Among other participants, Rev. Fidel Gonzalez Fernandez, Rector of the present day Urban College which accommodates students from mission territories, and professors Giovanni Rizzi, Luigi Mezzadri, Giorgio Fedalto, Gianfrancesco Colzani, Carmelo Dotolo and Benedict Kanakappally. The seminar will focus on the history and mission of the PUU within the centuries old history of the Congregation for the Evangelisation of Peoples which since the 17th century has organised and directed the missionary activity of the Catholic Church in the New World and in ancient lands of the Far East. (Fides Service 21/11/2002)