Founded as York Diocesan College, York St. John University is a university with a sizable urban campus in York, England. Canterbury Christ Church University, Liverpool Hope University, St. Mary's University College, University of Chester, University of Chichester, University of Cumbria, University of Derby, University of Gloucestershire, University of Winchester, and Bishop Grosseteste University are a few other higher education institutions with religious roots. There were 6,057 students enrolled in four faculties as of July 2011: Arts, Education and Theology, York St. John Business School, and Health and Life Sciences. These students were studying a wide range of courses. Two Anglican teacher training institutions that were established in York in 1841 (for males) and 1846 are the forebears of the university (for women). The women's college moved to Ripon in 1862. The colleges gradually expanded their educational offerings throughout the following century. In order to create the "College of Ripon and York St John," St John's College and Ripon College combined in 1974. The united organization officially became a college of the University of Leeds in 1990. This arrangement allowed it to confer degrees in the latter's name while remaining largely autonomous in practice. All operations were moved to York between 1999 and 2001, and the college was given the name "York St. John College." The College received permission to confer degrees in its own name and to refer to itself as a university college in February 2006. The Privy Council granted the college's request on July 10, 2006, to become a full-fledged university. Tony Blair approved the request on October 1, 2006, and on March 7, 2007, the Archbishop of York John Sentamu was installed as the university's first Chancellor during a ceremony held in York Minster.