The Catholic University of South Sudan represents a dream long deferred. In 1983, the late Pope John Paul II spoke with then President J. M. Nimeiry about a Catholic University in the Sudan. In 2003, on the occasion of the canonization of Daniel Comboni, the Holy Father again raised the issue of a Catholic University and encouraged the Bishops to establish a University. After the signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) in 2005, the Sudan Catholic Bishops??? Conference took the decision to establish the Catholic University of Sudan (CUofS) at the General Assembly in July 2007.