Concordia College Manila

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Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia (Spanish)
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Former names
  • Escuela Pia (1868)
  • Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia
Motto
  • Sciencia et Virtus
  • Veritas et Vita
Motto in English
  • Knowledge and Virtue
  • Truth and Life
Type Private non-profit basic and higher education institution
EstablishedMay 3, 1868;156 years ago (May 3, 1868)
FounderMargarita Roxas De Ayala
Religious affiliation
Roman Catholic
(Daughters of Charity)
Academic affiliations
PAASCU DCSLMES
President Sr. Nicetas M. Favorito, DC
Principal Nereann H. Tuaño
Address
1739 Pedro Gil Street
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Metro Manila
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Philippines

14°34′52″N121°00′09″E / 14.5812°N 121.0025°E / 14.5812; 121.0025
Alma Mater songCollege Hymn
PatronessBlessed Virgin Mary
(Under the title Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception)
Colors  Blue  and  White 
Website laconcordia.edu.ph
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Location in Manila
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The College of the Immaculate Conception of Concordia (Spanish : Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia), commonly known as Concordia College Manila, is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution run by Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Paco, Manila, in the Philippines. The college was founded in 1868. The institution is affiliated with DC-SLMES(St. Louise de Marillac Educational System).

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History

Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia was established by Doña Margarita Roxas de Ayala by converting her three-and-a-half-hectare villa, the La Concordia Estate in Paco, Manila, into a school. She requested eight nuns from the Daughters of Charity from Spain to come to the Philippines to administer the school. They arrived on May 3, 1868, and operated the free school or Escuela Pia. Sixty students enrolled and were taught religion, good manners, reading and writing, simple arithmetic, culture, and arts like sewing, embroidery, cooking, needlecraft and household work. The medium of instruction was Spanish. [1]

In 1868, the school officially adapted a new name, Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia, the same year that it became the Central House of the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines. [2]

Significant periods in the development of the Concordia College, such as the Philippine Revolution of 1896 and the American era, brought about education reform.

Etymology

Name

According to the student manual, the name "Concordia" means "in accord with" or "in accordance to the above"

Notable alumni

Among its well-known former students was Sister Asuncion Ventura-Horcoma Bautista, who was the first Filipino to found an orphanage, the Asilo de Looban. Additionally, there was Maria Paz Mendoza-Guazon, the first Filipino woman doctor, who was also an educator, a writer and a feminist. Although her studies were interrupted by the Revolution, she was able to resume them when she transferred to the American School in 1901.

Other notable students were Saturnina, Soledad, and Olympia Rizal, the sisters of Philippine national hero Jose Rizal.[ citation needed ]

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References

  1. "About La Concordia College". Concordia College. Archived from the original on 15 April 2015. Retrieved 9 April 2015.
  2. "About La Concordia College". Facebook. Retrieved 9 April 2015.