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Universidad Católica de Cuenca (English: Catholic University of Cuenca) is an Ecuadorian university founded on September 7, 1970 by the Catholic priest César Cordero Moscoso in the city of Cuenca. It has seats and extensions in the provinces of Cañar, Morona Santiago, Napo and Pichincha. It has approximately 14,000 students.

History
Universidad Católica de Cuenca was founded under the personal directives of Fr. César Cordero Moscoso, who had also founded Escuela Arzobispo Serrano in 1955, Miguel Cordero Crespo Catholic High School in 1962, and subsequently other educational institutions.

Cordero Moscoso received support for his new university from the first Archbishop of Cuenca, Manuel Serrano Abad, and the backing of prominent citizens such as Enrique Arízaga Toral, Manuel María Palacios Bravo, the former mayor of Cuenca Luis Cordero Crespo, and the Redemptorist Fr. José Fidel Hidalgo who was designated the first rector of the university, in addition to about 3,000 other signatories.