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Fortaleza Fortaleza (, locally , Portuguese for ''Fortress'') is the state capital of Ceará, located in Northeastern Brazil. It belongs to the Metropolitan mesoregion of Fortaleza and microregion of Fortaleza. It is Brazil's 5th largest city and the t ...

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Ceará Ceará (, pronounced locally as or ) is one of the 26 states of Brazil, located in the northeastern part of the country, on the Atlantic coast. It is the eighth-largest Brazilian State by population and the 17th by area. It is also one of the ...

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Retrieved 22 July 2016. , staff = 72 , teaching_staff = , grades = Kindergarten through high school , gender = Coeducational , enrollment = 744 , athletics = , mascot = , nickname = , accreditation = , national_ranking = , publication = , newspaper = , yearbook = , affiliations = , website = , picture = , picture_caption = , address = Av. Judge Moreira, 2355 , assst_admin = , president = , asst principal = , tuition = , campus = , colors = St. Ignatius College ( pt, Colégio Santo Inácio) is a Brazilian Catholic school located in

. It offers kindergarten through high school as well as an evening school which enables workers to complete elementary and high school. The school was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1955.

History

St. Ignatius College began in 1955 as a small school at the Church of Christ the King, under the name of ''Apostolic Pre-School Our Lady of Fatima''. The following year it took the name ''Christ the King Day School'' but had semi-boarding. A new foundation was laid in 1960 and the school moved to its current headquarters under the name ''St. Ignatius College'' in 1963. Its directors have all been Jesuit priests: * Gerardo Sá da Silveira – 1963–1967 * José Correia – 1967–1972 * Pedro Alberto Campos – 1972–1977 * Antonio Farias Basic – 1977–1979 * Luciano – 1980–1986 * Pedro Vicente Ferreira – 1986–1988 * Manuel Madruga – 1988–1991 * Benjamin Gesteira – 1992–1995 * Pedro Vicente Ferreira – 1996–2001 * José Ivan Dias – 2002–2005 * Antonio Tabosa – 2005–2008 * Raimundo Kroth – 2008–2010 * Ponciano Petri – 2010–2011History
Retrieved 22 July 2016.

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