High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Leuven Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, is a branch of the Catholic University of Leuven. The faculty was established in 1834, as a part of the Catholic University of Mechlin then called Catholic University of Leuven. Following the Belgian Revolution of 1830, which has etablished the freedom of teaching, this New Catholic University was founded in 1834 at Malines by the private initiative of the Belgian bishops. In 1967 the faculty was divided into Flemish and French speaking departments, and they exist today as two separate faculties.