Taipa is an area in Macau,connected to Coloane through the area known as Cotai,which is largely built from reclaimed land. Located on the northern half of the island,Taipa's population is mostly suburban. Administratively,the boundaries of the traditional civil parish Freguesia de Nossa Senhora do Carmo are mostly coterminous with that of the former Taipa Island,except for a portion of the parish that lies on the island of Hengqin (Montanha),housing the campus of the University of Macau.
Nossa Senhora de Fátima is the northernmost and largest civil parish in the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It has an area of 3.2 square kilometers (1.2 sq mi) and a population of 126,000,which constitutes about 40.3% of the peninsula's land mass and one-third of the population.
Santo António is a civil parish in the western portion of the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It has the highest population density in Macau.
São Lázaro is the smallest civil parish of Macau,located in the central-east region of the Macau Peninsula. It is surrounded by the parishes of Nossa Senhora de Fátima,Santo António,and Sé.
Sé is a southeast civil parish in the Macau Peninsula of Macau. It is the second largest peninsular district in Macau after the civil parish of Nossa Senhora de Fátima. The parish area is named for the Igreja da Sé.
São Lourenço is a civil parish of Macau. It is located in the southwestern of Macau Peninsula and named after Lawrence of Rome.
The University of Macau is a public research university of Macau. The university campus is located in Hengqin Island,Zhuhai,Guangdong,on a piece of land leased to and under the jurisdiction of the Government of Macau.
The Diocese of Macau is a Latin Church exempt ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church,in contrast with the Diocese of Hong Kong,which is,de jure,part of the Ecclesiastical Province of Guangdong.
The Catholic Church in Macau is part of the worldwide Catholic Church,under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. The history of Catholic church in Macau can traced back to 1576 under the leadership of the Pope. Catholic church in Macau was built not only with the purpose of prayers and atonement but also as rally point for Portuguese to gather up and act as a midway for missionaries going to deeper part of China and south east Asia. The Catholic church within Macau has played an important role on the spread of Catholicism in Japan,Vietnam and China and other parts of south east Asia. The Catholic church in Macau has provided schooling,missionary training and preaching the gospel to the local catholic and non-catholic communities. There are around 30,000 Catholics in Macau,which forms a single diocese,the Diocese of Macau. The current bishop of Macau is Stephen Lee Bun-sang.
Ilha Verde,also known by its Cantonese name Cing-zau and Mandarin name Qingzhou,is an area in the northwest of Macau Peninsula,Macau,that forms part of the Our Lady Fatima Parish. It is a former island—known in English as Verde or Green Island—to the west of the Macau Isthmus. It was settled by Jesuits.
Saint Joseph University of Beirut is a private Catholic research university in Beirut,Lebanon,founded in 1875 by French Jesuit missionaries and subsidized by the Government of France during the time when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule.
Escola Catolica Estrela do Mar or E.M is a Catholic preschool through secondary school in São Lourenço,Macau,China. The school has an annual event held on 8 December each year which commemorates the construction of the school. The registration school serial number at the Education and Youth Affairs Bureau (Macau) is 004 and 005 for the branch. It is a member of the Macau Catholic Schools Association.
St. Paul's College of Macau,also known as College of Madre de Deus,was a university founded in 1594 in Macau by Jesuits at the service of the Portuguese under the Padroado treaty. It claimed the title of the first Western university in East Asia.
Macao Polytechnic University (MPU) is a public university in Macau,China. It was established in 1981.
Liceu de Macau was a Portuguese-curriculum public secondary school in Sé,Macau. It was the territory's only public Lusophone secondary school.
The International School of Macao,is an international school in Taipa,Macao next to the Macau International Airport. It occupies blocks K and Q of the Macau University of Science and Technology. It is accredited by Alberta,Canada.
Kao Yip Middle School is a preschool through secondary school in Sé,Macau. It was founded in 1910 and merged with the Confucianism Middle School and Silver Leaves Primary School in 1975. Kao Yip Middle School is the only school in Macau with Confucianism as a principle.
The Macao Conservatory is a public conservatory in Macau,a special administrative region of China.
Kwong Tai Middle School or Guang Da Middle School is a private school in Macau,serving preschool through secondary school. It has a main campus in Nossa Senhora de Fátima and a branch campus in Santo António.
