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St. John's College (Little Rock)
Saint John's College or variations may refer to: Australia * St John's College, University of Queensland, a residential college on the St Lucia campus of the university * St John's College, University of Sydney, a Roman Catholic residential college of the university * St John's College, Darwin, a Roman Catholic secondary school in the Northern Territory * Saint John's College, Whyalla, formerly a Roman Catholic secondary school in South Australia * St John's College, Woodlawn, a Roman Catholic secondary school, near Lismore, New South Wales * St John's Anglican College, Brisbane, an Anglican primary and secondary school in the Forest Lake suburb, Queensland * St John's Regional College, is a Roman Catholic secondary school in Dandenong, Victoria * St John's Theological College, Melbourne, a former Anglican theological college in Melbourne, Victoria * St John's College, Morpeth, a former Anglican theological college originally in Armidale and then Morpeth, New South Wales * St John ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, University Of Queensland
There are eleven residential colleges of the University of Queensland. Colleges Cromwell College * On the St Lucia campus. Was the first of the Colleges on the St Lucia campus in June 1954, and admitted men only until it became co-ed in 1973. * Founded in 1950 and initially funded by a private donation from the Hancock family * Its emblem is a lion * Has five buildings (17 Corridors) named after influential people in Cromwell's history: North, Thatcher / Dowling, Hancock, Begbie and Lockley. Duchesne College * On the St Lucia Campus, among ten other university residential colleges. * Founded in 1937, initially at Stuartholme College in Toowong, by a collaboration of the university, the Catholic Archdiocese and under the auspices of the Sisters of the Sacred Heart, at the request of Archbishop James Duhig * Moved to St Lucia after a new collegiate building was constructed at the university for it in 1959. * Named after Rose Philippine Duchesne, a French woman who was instrume ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Johannesburg
St John's College is an Independent Anglican day and boarding boys' school situated in Houghton Estate in the city of Johannesburg in the Gauteng province of South Africa. It was founded in 1898 and comprises five schools: College, Preparatory, Pre-Preparatory and The Bridge Nursery, as well as a co-educational Sixth Form. St John's College is a member of the Independent Schools Association of Southern Africa, ISASA. History Early history St John's College was founded in Johannesburg on 1 August 1898. When Johannesburg was just 12 years old, St John's College was founded by the rector of St Mary's Church, later the cathedral. The founder, Father John Darragh, was from Ireland and a well-known figure in early Johannesburg. The tiny school was housed in Plein Street in downtown Johannesburg. There were seven pupils and only two desks. Unfortunately the school closed after only two years when the Anglo-Boer War broke out and all the civilians in Johannesburg dashed down to Cape Tow ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John's University (other)
St John's University may refer to: * St. John's University (New York City) **St. John's University School of Law ** St. John's University (Italy) - Overseas Campus *College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University, St. Joseph, Minnesota and Collegeville, Minnesota ** St. John's University, Minnesota (CDP), a census-designated place in Minnesota *St. John's University, Shanghai (1887–1952) * St. John's University (Taiwan), successor institution of the Shanghai university *St. John's University (Springfield, Louisiana), an unaccredited institution *St. John's University of Tanzania, Dodoma * St. John's University School of Medicine, unaccredited medical school supposedly based in Montserrat * Saint John's Group of Schools and University, in Bangkok, Thailand See also *Saint John's College (other) Saint John's College or variations may refer to: Australia * St John's College, University of Queensland, a residential college on the St Lucia campus of the university ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Fiji
St John's College (commonly called 'St Johns College Cawaci) is a Roman Catholic secondary school, located in Cawaci, on the island of Ovalau, in the province of Lomaiviti, Fiji. It is a co-educational boarding school. While administered by the Catholic Archdiocese, it also accepts non-Catholic students and apart from priests, nuns and brothers of religious orders, has government-paid staff. History St John's College is one of Fiji's oldest Catholic mission schools, established at Nasarete (Nazareth) a small hill within the Cawaci Catholic Mission land in 1894. The school catered first for native Fijians of chiefly rank. This class-based enrolment was later abolished. The Marist Brothers were responsible for teaching the boys. Brothers Maurice, Vincent and Cloman were the first teachers. The school opened with 12 students and by 1906 there were 80 boys from all parts of Fiji. By 1929 there were 100 pupils and in 1938 there were 300. In 1937 the boys aged 6 to 16, were required ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saint John's Seminary (Massachusetts)
Saint John's Seminary, located in the Brighton, Massachusetts, Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is a Catholic major seminary sponsored by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Founded in 1884, the seminary has 114 seminarians and approximately 60 lay students, mostly from dioceses in New England. The current rector is Fr. Stephen E. Salocks. History In 1864, wealthy Boston merchant James Stanworth acquired a farm on a hill in Brighton known as the Hildreth estate. Stanworth suffered losses in the Panic of 1873 and his heirs found he owed substantial debts. Archbishop John Joseph Williams purchased the Hildreth estate and construction of the Boston Ecclesiastical Seminary began in 1881 and was completed in 1884. In 1883, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts granted a Charter to the Seminary to grant degrees in philosophy and divinity. The Archbishop entrusted the seminary to his former teachers, the Society of Saint-Sulpice, Sulpicians. Students began classes o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fordham University
Fordham University () is a Private university, private Jesuit universities, Jesuit research university in New York City. Established in 1841 and named after the Fordham, Bronx, Fordham neighborhood of the The Bronx, Bronx in which its original campus is located, Fordham is the oldest Catholic Church, Catholic and Society of Jesus, Jesuit university in the northeastern United States and the third-oldest university in New York (state), New York State. Founded as St. John's College by John Hughes (archbishop), John Hughes, then a coadjutor bishop of New York, the college was placed in the care of the Society of Jesus shortly thereafter, and has since become a Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities, Jesuit-affiliated independent school under a laity, lay board of trustees. The college's first president, John McCloskey, was later the first Catholic Cardinal (Catholic Church), cardinal in the United States. While governed independently of the church since 1969, every List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, York
York St John University (originally established as York Diocesan College), often abbreviated to YSJ, is a public university located on a large urban campus in York, England. Established in 1841, it achieved university status in 2006 and in 2015 the university was given research degree awarding powers for PhD and doctoral programmes. It is one of several higher education institutions which have religious foundations and is part of the Cathedrals Group of Universities. In , there were students, reading a wide variety of subjects, in five schools: School of the Arts; School of Education, Language and Psychology; School of Humanities; School of Science, Technology and Health; and York Business School. History The university descends from two Anglican teacher training colleges, which were founded in York in 1841 (for men) and 1846 (for women). York St John University's founding mission was to improve access to education for people from all walks of life. In 1862, the women's coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, St Andrews
St John's College (or Auld pedagogy) of the University of St Andrews as a constituent college founded between 1418 and 1430 and was the precursor to present-day St Mary's College. The founder of the college was Lawrence of Lindores (1372-1437) under the chancellorship of Bishop Wardlaw. History King James I used the rivalry between Bishop-Chancellor Wardlaw and Lawrence, to petition the Pope, in 1426, to transfer the University from St Andrews to Perth, in line with the King's policy of bringing the Scottish Church under royal control. This move failed, but it made the academic community aware of its common interests. The college was located on South Street, on the present site of the King James library and Parliament Hall, to the immediate east of the present St Marys College buildings. Parts of the original college buildings were incorporated into the King James library and adjoining structures in the nineteenth century. St Johns College was refounded by Cardinal David Beaton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Portsmouth
St John's College was a former independent day and boarding school located in Southsea, Hampshire, England. On 16 May 2022, the Governors of St John's College announced that the school would not re-open in September 2022 due to declining student numbers, under-investment and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.https://www.stjohnscollege.co.uk/force_download.cfm?id=5244 On the 26th of August 2022, St John's College appointed administrators and officially went into liquidation. St John's was founded by the De La Salle brothers in 1908 and it continued to retain its Christian values throughout its 114 years of existence. The final head of college at the time of closure was Mary Maguire. The college has several notable alumni, known as Old Johannians, including the Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales Lord Ian Burnett, England footballer Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and BBC newsreader George Alagiah. Closure On 16 May 2022, the Governors of St John's College announced that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Oxford
St John's College is a constituent college of the University of Oxford. Founded as a men's college in 1555, it has been coeducational since 1979.Communication from Michael Riordan, college archivist Its founder, Sir Thomas White, intended to provide a source of educated Roman Catholic clerics to support the Counter-Reformation under Queen Mary. St John's is the wealthiest college in Oxford, with a financial endowment of £600 million as of 2020, largely due to nineteenth-century suburban development of land in the city of Oxford of which it is the ground landlord. The college occupies a site on St Giles' and has a student body of some 390 undergraduates and 250 postgraduates. There are over 100 academic staff, and a like number of other staff. In 2018 St John's topped the Norrington Table, the annual ranking of Oxford colleges' final results, and in 2021, St John's ranked second with a score of 79.8. History On 1 May 1555, Sir Thomas White, lately Lord Mayor of London, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Nottingham
St John's College, Nottingham, founded as the London College of Divinity, was an Anglican and interdenominational theological college situated in Bramcote, Nottingham, England. The college stood in the open evangelical tradition and stated that its mission is "to inspire creative Christian learning marked by evangelical conviction, theological excellence and Spirit-filled life, that all who train with us might be equipped for mission in a world of change". St John's trained students for ministries in the Church of England and other denominations, independent students from a range of Christian contexts, and students for children's and youth ministries through its Midlands centre for the Institute for Children, Youth and Mission (MCYM). It offered a diversity of full-time, part-time, blended and distance learning courses, including specialist modules in pastoral care and counselling and church administration. Academic awards were validated by Durham University and Gloucester Uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
St John's College, Durham
St John's College is a college of the University of Durham, United Kingdom. It is one of only two "recognised colleges" of the university, the other being St Chad's. This means that it is financially and constitutionally independent of the university and has a greater degree of administrative independence than the other, "maintained", colleges. However, to maintain its status as a recognised college, the university council must approve the appointment of its principal and be notified of changes to its constitution. St John's is Durham's second smallest college and comprises John's Hall for undergraduate and postgraduate students studying any university course and Cranmer Hall (named after Thomas Cranmer and with its own master or Warden), an Anglican theological college in the open evangelical tradition. History Founded as a Church of England theological college in 1909, it became a full constituent college of the university in 1919. In 1958 it was divided into Cranmer Hall th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
