UCD founder Cardinal John Henry Newman will be made a saint later this year.
The Vatican has announced that Cardinal Newman will be canonised on October 13.
The move was formally approved by Pope Francis at a Consistory of cardinals on Monday, the Catholic Herald reports.
Cardinal Newman, an Englishman who converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism, founded the Catholic University in 1854 which would later become known as University College Dublin under 1908 Universities Act.
He went on to serve as the university’s first rector until 1858.
The original university opened with three houses 86 St Stephen’s Green – also known as St Patrick’s or University House, 16 Harcourt Street – known as St Lawrence’s, and 6 Harcourt Street which Newman’s own house, known as St Mary’s.
