The Collegio Universitario "Gregorianum" (University Residence Hall) derives from the "Gregorianum Foundation", governed by a Board whose statutory Chairman is the Bishop of the Diocese of Padua. The Bishop appoints five members of the Board (including the Vice Chairman, currently Prof. Bottecchia, who heads the Board and is also the managing director of the Foundation. The bishop also assigns a diocesan priest as ecclesiastical assistant to the Collegio community. The Director of the Collegio instead is appointed by the Board.

The Collegio is named after the Paduan Bishop, St. Gregorio Barbarigo, who, in the XVII century, was a pioneer in the field of intellectual, religious and moral education of the young people.

The aim of the "Gregorianum" is that of realising that idea of a university community that the founders, Don Ivo Sinico in primis, had expounded in 1963 starting from the intuitions expressed by Mons. Franco Costa and Mons. Girolamo Bortignon.

It accommodates 60 students in single rooms and 5 graduate tutors. The students are admitted through competition based on a series of interviews aimed at gathering the willingness of the candidates to accept and uphold the educational proposal of the Collegio.