The Collège de la Sainte Famille ( en, School of the Holy Family; ar, مدرسة العائلة المقدسة), often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a

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Roman Catholic French international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in the

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(preparatory and secondary section), Daher (primary section), and Heliopolis (primary section) districts of Cairo, Egypt. It was founded by the Jesuits in 1879, after a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests in the Catholic Church.

History

The college began with 16 pupils, in 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski. In 1882 today's college was inaugurated in

. The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal. The transportation of students was by

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s. The college had 112 students. Thereafter was built: the church (1891), the theatre (1892), the current building of Preparatory Cycle (1925), the Primary Cycle in Downtown Cairo (1930), and the Primary Cycle in Heliopolis (1934). In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 nations: Egypt, France, Lebanon,

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, Italy, Greece, England,

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, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Persia.

Notable alumni

* Boutros Boutros Ghali - Former UN Secretary General and former Egyptian foreign minister * Prince Abbas Hilmi - member of the Egyptian Royal Family from the

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dynasty * Mourad Wahba Pasha - Egyptian high court judge and former Cabinet Minister * Wassef Boutros Ghali Pasha - former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs *

Maximos V Hakim Maximos V Hakim ( ar, ماكسيموس الخامس حكيم; May 18, 1908, in Tanta, Egypt – June 29, 2001, Beirut, Lebanon) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church i ...

- late Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch * Georges Corm - Lebanese economist and former Minister of Finance of Lebanon * Henri Curiel - left-wing activist and founder of the Democratic Movement for National Liberation *

Gilbert Sinoué Gilbert Sinoué (born 18 February 1947 in Cairo, Egypt) is a classically trained guitarist and author who has lived in France since the age of 19. He has won major French literary awards for his books, which are written in French. Many of his ...

- French author and screenwriter * Ahmed Afifi - CEEMEA Trade Finance Head, J.P. Morgan Chase Bank * Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour - former Minister of Tourism *

Magued Osman Dr. Magued Osman ( ar, ماجد عثمان) is the CEO and Director of the Egyptian Center for Public Opinion Research "Baseera," which ran the only transparent public opinion surveys by phone for the first Egyptian Presidential elections in 201 ...

- former Minister of Communications and Information Technology * Mohsen Badawi - businessman and founding member of the Canada Egypt Business Council * Ramy Lakah - Egyptian-French businessman * Robert Solé - French writer and journalist of Egyptian origin * Hussein fahmy - 110m hurdles Egyptian record holder (U20) *

Nagy Habib Nagy Habib (born 1952), is professor of hepato-biliary surgery at Imperial College, London, and is known for devising radio-frequency based liver resection devices which remove liver tumour with minimal blood loss. His work has also focused on ...

- Professor of Surgery, Imperial College, London * Hisham Selim - actor *

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- Award winning Director of Photography *

Mohamed Imam Mohamed Adel Mohamed Emam ( ar, محمد عادل محمد إمام; born 16 September 1984) is an Egyptian actor. He comes from an artistic family as his father is actor Adel Emam. His brother is the director Ramy Imam. Career Mohamed went to ...

- actor * Tarek Nour - founder and CEO of Tarek Nour Advertising * Amr El Barbary - CEO of Palm Hills Properties * Louis Fattal - Egyptian-French photographer * Fouad Mansour - Editor in Chief Al-Ahram Hebdo, Ahram Online * Hassan Kami - Egyptian actor and opera singer

Notable faculty

* Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Jesuit, Priest, idealist philosopher, paleontologist and mystic * James J. Mullooly Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Fresno

Notes

External links

Official website

Alumni

Petit Collège website

El Fagr newspaper

Bac Français website
{{DEFAULTSORT:College de la Sainte Famille Catholic secondary schools in Egypt French international schools in Egypt International schools in Cairo Educational institutions established in 1879 Private schools in Cairo Boys' schools in Egypt Jesuit schools in Egypt 1879 establishments in Egypt

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Notable alumni

Notable faculty

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