The Irish Institute ( es, Instituto Irlandés) is a catholic private school in
Greater Mexico City
Greater Mexico City refers to the conurbation around Mexico City, officially called Metropolitan Area of the Valley of Mexico ( es, Zona metropolitana del Valle de México). It encompasses Mexico City itself and 60 adjacent municipalities of the S ...
. Operated by the
Legionaries of Christ
The Congregation of the Legionaries of Christ ( la, Congregatio Legionariorum Christi; abbreviated LC; also Legion of Christ) is a Roman Catholic clerical religious order made up of priests and candidates for the priesthood established by Marci ...
,
[Berry, Jason and Gerald Renner. ''Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II''. ]Simon & Schuster
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, March 4, 2004. , 9780743253819. p
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the grounds, located in
Naucalpan
Naucalpan, officially Naucalpan de Juárez, is one of 125 municipalities located just northwest of Mexico City in the adjoining State of Mexico. The municipal seat is the city of Naucalpan de Juárez, which extends into the neighboring municipa ...
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State of Mexico, have separate areas for boys and girls, plus a third one for the coed preschool. The school levels in total range from preschool to ''bachillerato'',
Niveles educativos
" Instituto Irlandés Masculino. Retrieved on June 18, 2014. equivalent to the American K-12.
The Irish Institute is also present in other cities of Mexico, including: Nuevo Laredo
Nuevo Laredo () is a city in the Municipality of Nuevo Laredo in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas. The city lies on the banks of the Rio Grande, across from Laredo, United States. The 2010 census population of the city was 373,725. Nuevo Lar ...
and Monterrey.
Students
Jason Berry and Gerald Renner, the authors of the 2004 book ''Vows of Silence: The Abuse of Power in the Papacy of John Paul II'', said that the students came from the "superrich of Mexico City".[ Paul Lennon, a former member of the Legionaries quoted in the book, wrote that "The family names f the studentswere like a Who's Who of Mexican people."][ Historically many students arrived in cars driven by bodyguards for protection against kidnapping.][
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References
External links
Irish Institute
Irish Mexican
Catholic schools in Mexico
High schools in the State of Mexico
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