Benque Viejo del Carmen ("Benque") is the westernmost town in Belize, 130 km (81 mi) by road west and south of Belize City, at the Guatemalan border. San Ignacio lies 13 km to the east and Melchor de Mencos just across the border. The Mopan River runs along the town's north and west edges.
Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a private Jesuit and Marymount research university in Los Angeles, California. It is located on the west side of the city, near Playa Vista. LMU is also the parent school to Loyola Law School located in downtown Los Angeles.
The Ateneo de Manila University, also known simply as the Ateneo de Manila, the Ateneo, or ADMU, is a private Jesuit research university in Quezon City, Philippines. Founded in 1859 by the Society of Jesus as Escuela Municipal de Manila, it is the second-oldest Jesuit-administered institution of higher learning in Asia-Pacific.
Catholic higher education includes universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education privately run by the Catholic Church, typically by religious institutes. Those tied to the Holy See are specifically called pontifical universities.
St Aloysius' College is a Roman Catholic independent single-sex primary and secondary day school for boys, conducted in the Jesuit tradition, located in Kirribilli, a suburb on the Lower North Shore of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Loyola Academy is a private, Catholic, co-educational college preparatory high school run by the USA Midwest Province of the Society of Jesus in Wilmette, Illinois, a northern suburb of Chicago, and in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago. It is a member of the Jesuit Secondary Education Association and the largest Jesuit high school in America, with over 2,000 students from more than 80 different zip codes throughout the Chicago area. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1909.
Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola is a private, Catholic, Jesuit, all-male college-preparatory school run by the U.S. Central and Southern Province of the Society of Jesus in San Juan, Puerto Rico. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1952. It has educated some of the most influential figures in Puerto Rico such as Fernando Picó, Ruben Berrios and Raúl Juliá.
Loyola Blakefield is a private Catholic, college preparatory school run by the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus in Towson, Maryland and within the Archdiocese of Baltimore. It was established in 1852 by the Jesuits as an all-boys school for students from Baltimore, Baltimore County, Harford County, Carroll County, Howard County, Anne Arundel County, and Southern Pennsylvania. It enrolls over 900 students in grades six through twelve. Loyola Blakefield was formerly called Loyola High School. This was the name given to the school when it was established in 1852. The name change occurred when they added a Middle school.
Loyola College was an Jesuit college in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1896 and ceased to exist as an independent institution in 1974 when it was incorporated into Concordia University. A portion of the original college remains as a separate entity called Loyola High School.
Loyola College of Culion is a private, Catholic secondary and higher education institution run by a Catholic religious order, the Philippine Province of the Society of Jesus, in Barangay Libis, Culion, Palawan province, Philippines. The school was opened by the Jesuits in 1936 for the purpose of having a school for the children of leper patients. So since its establishment, the School was accepting only children of leper patients. Then in the mid-1950s, with the enactment of the Liberalization Law for Lepers, the doors of the school were opened to all. With this development, the School sought to identify what it is now for and what it hopes to achieve. In October 2015, the administrators, faculty and staff of the School convened to re-think and eventually formulate its new vision and mission. Beginning School Year 2016-2017, the Loyola College of Culion had a new vision and mission.
Ignatius of Loyola, venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Spanish Basque Catholic priest and theologian, who together with Peter Faber and Francis Xavier founded the religious order called the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) and became its first Superior General at Paris in 1541. The Jesuit order is dedicated to teaching and missionary work. Its members are bound by a special (fourth) vow of obedience to the sovereign pontiff to be ready to fulfill special papal missions. The society played an important role during the Counter-Reformation.
The Church of St. Ignatius of Loyola is a Roman Catholic parish church located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City, administered by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). The parish is under the authority of the Archdiocese of New York, and was established in 1851 as St. Lawrence O'Toole's Church. In 1898, permission to change the patron saint of the parish from St. Lawrence O'Toole to St. Ignatius of Loyola was granted by Rome. The address is 980 Park Avenue, New York City, New York 10028. The church on the southwest corner of Park Avenue and 84th Street is part of a Jesuit complex on the block that includes Wallace Hall, the parish hall beneath the church, the rectory at the midblock location on Park Avenue, the grade school of St. Ignatius's School on the north midblock location of 84th Street behind the church and the high school of Loyola School at the northwest corner of Park Avenue and 83rd Street. In addition, another Jesuit high school, Regis High School, occupies the midblock location on the north side of 84th Street. The church was added to the National Register of Historic Places on July 24, 1980.
St. Xavier's Higher Secondary School is a private Catholic primary and senior secondary school located in Bettiah, Bihar, India. The school was founded in 1998 and is run by the Society of Jesus. The school offers kindergarten through higher secondary curriculum.
St. Gabriel College, Quito, Ecuador, was founded by the Jesuits in 1862, and has grown to include pre-primary as well as six primary and six secondary years.
St. John's High School, Amalapuram is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Amalapuram, East Godavari, Andhra Pradesh, India. The high school was founded in 1968, followed in 1985 by an English medium primary school. The Society of Jesus has managed both schools since 2002.
Loyola Higher Secondary School is a private Catholic secondary school located in Kuppayanallur, in the Kanchipuram district of Tamil Nadu, India. The Tamil-medium, co-educational high school was founded by the Jesuits in 1995 and educates students from grades six through twelve.
St. Matthew College, Chile, is a Jesuit pre-K through secondary school in Osorno which dates back to the Institute of St. Matthew founded by the Society of the Divine Word in 1932. It is currently part of the Ignatian Educational Network of Chile and the Federation of Jesuit Colleges in Latin America (FLACSI).
Xavier Lyceum is a private Catholic preschool, primary and secondary school located in the City of Guatemala. The schools was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1952 as a boys' only school and became co-educational in 2000. The school includes preschool through baccalaureate in science and in literature.
