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The Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy is a Jesuit-run institution of higher education and research, located in Dublin, Ireland. Milltown is located in Ranelagh, County Dublin. Since 1997 it has been a Recognised College of the National University of Ireland, under the 1997 Universities Act, the Irish government removed the ban on the NUI awarding degrees in Theology which had stood since its foundation and its predecessor the Royal University of Ireland. The Milltown Institute was also an Ecclesiastical Faculty until its designation was suspended by the Congregation for Catholic Education in Rome in July 2015. The Irish School of Ecumenics used to be located at the Milltown Park site but is now in Trinity College Dublin.Since November 1989, when it was granted designated status under the National Council for Educational Awards Act 1979, it has developed and offered civil programmes leading to Bachelor, Masters and Doctoral awards. The NCEA became HETAC in 2001.Since 2011, the future of the Milltown Institute became uncertain and it is currently understood that it will be closed permanently and a new institute, the Loyola Institute, will take its place as part of Trinity College Dublin.
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