The process of establishing the Sociedad formally began on 20th July 2025, with the appointment of a Provisional Committee tasked with taking the necessary steps towards its creation. Its responsibilities included drafting the preliminary Statutes, gathering expressions of support and organizing the procedures required to provide the initiative with a stable legal and institutional structure. A decisive moment came on 1st September 2025, when, at 6 p.m., the Constitutive General Meeting was held in Santa Rosa. It was attended by the members of the Provisional Committee and the Sociedad’s first associate members: Paola Druille, Marta Alesso, Laura Pérez, María Rocío Saitúa Popoviez, and Tomás Heredia, who were later joined by Camila Flores. The meeting was chaired by Paola Druille, with Laura Pérez as secretary. During the meeting, the principal foundations of the new organization were approved. First, the General Meeting unanimously approved the name Sociedad de Estudios Filónicos, together with its acronym SPS, and established the city of Santa Rosa as the Association’s legal address. The Statutes were also approved, and it was decided that the Association would have perpetual duration, expressing the intention to establish an academic space that would transcend the individual careers of its members and endure over time. The General Meeting also defined the objectives that would guide the Sociedad’s activities: to promote research on Philo of Alexandria, to foster the teaching of the classical languages, and to encourage exchange among scholars working in the field. For this purpose, the Sociedad would organize study days, academic meetings, symposia, and congresses, as well as enter into agreements with related institutions, both nationally and internationally, and publish scholarly and academic works. On the same occasion, the Sociedad’s first officers were elected: Paola Druille (CONICET, National University of La Pampa), as President and Founder; Marta Alesso (National University of La Pampa), as Vice-President; Laura Pérez (National University of La Pampa), as Secretary; María Rocío Saitúa Popoviez (National University of La Pampa), as Treasurer; Tomás Heredia (National University of La Pampa), as Ordinary Member of the Executive Committee; and Camila Flores (National University of La Pampa), as Alternate Member. The formation of this first Executive Committee established the governing structure of the new organization and embodied the commitment to sustaining a collective scholarly endeavour.

The founding stage concluded with the decision to entrust the first President with carrying out the procedures required to obtain legal personality before the Directorate-General for the Supervision of Legal Entities and the Public Registry of Commerce of La Pampa Province. On 2nd December 2025, before the notary Paola Montero, the Sociedad’s Constitutive Act and Statutes were formally executed by public deed. Subsequently, on 13th May 2026, the General Director for the Supervision of Legal Entities and the Public Registry of Commerce, Attorney Guillermo Eduardo Rucano, granted the SPS state authorisation to operate as a legal entity, pursuant to Article 174 of Argentina’s Civil and Commercial Code (Resolution No. 310/2026). 

Thus, between July 2025 and March 2026, an initiative that emerged from a group of scholars devoted to the study of Philo of Alexandria developed into a formally constituted civil association. The foundation of the SPS thus represented the decision to transform an intellectual community into an institutional space, open to dialogue among different generations and scholarly trajectories devoted to the study of Philo and his legacy.