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Timeline Stories  ⁄  Timeline Stories
15Dec2022

The Congregation for the Clergy approves CHSI as a Pontifical Institute awarding a Catechetic Diploma exclusively through distance education.

December 15, 2022

CDU opens in 1983 as the Catholic Home Study Institute.

15Dec2022

School offers fully accredited MA in Religious Studies.

December 15, 2022
15Dec2022

CDU offers its first online seminar.

December 15, 2022
15Dec2022

CDU begins offering noncredit continuing education courses.

December 15, 2022
15Dec2022

Name changes to Catholic Distance University.

December 15, 2022
15Dec2022

The first Catechetical Diploma is awarded.

December 15, 2022
15Dec2022

Full accreditation from the Accrediting Commission of the Distance Education and Training Council (DETC), an accrediting agency of the U.S. Department of Education.

December 15, 2022

CDU earns DEAC accreditation in 1986

15Dec2022

Doors of the Catholic Home Study Institute (CHSI) open on August 22nd.

December 15, 2022
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