The Collège de la Sainte Famille (; ), often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic

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for boys run by the Near East province of the

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. It was founded in 1879, following a request by

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for a

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to help prepare students to become priests.

History

The college began with 16 pupils, in 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski. In 1882 today's college was inaugurated in Faggala. The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal. The transportation of students was by fiacres. 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

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(1930), and the Primary Cycle in Heliopolis (1934). In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 nations:

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Notable alumni

* Boutros Boutros Ghali - Former UN Secretary General and former Egyptian foreign minister *

Prince Abbas Hilmi Prince Abbas Hilmi (; born 16 October 1941) is an Egyptian and Ottoman prince and financial manager. A member of the Muhammad Ali Dynasty, he is the only son of Prince Muhammad Abdel Moneim and his Ottoman wife Princess Neslişah, and grand ...

- member of the Egyptian Royal Family from the

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dynasty * Mourad Wahba

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- Egyptian high court judge and former Cabinet Minister * Sadek Wahba - Chairman & Managing Partner of I Squared Capital * Wassef Boutros Ghali

- former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs *

Maximos V Hakim Maximos V Hakim (; May 18, 1908 – June 29, 2001) was elected Patriarch of Antioch and All the East, and Alexandria and Jerusalem of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church in 1967 and served until 2000. He guided the church through turbulent changes ...

- late

Melkite Greek Catholic The Melkite Greek Catholic Church (, ''Kanīsat ar-Rūm al-Malakiyyīn al-Kāṯūlīk''; ; ), also known as the Melkite Byzantine Catholic Church, is an Eastern Catholic church in full communion with the Holy See as part of the worldwide Catho ...

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- Lebanese economist and former Minister of Finance of

* Henri Curiel - left-wing activist and founder of the

Democratic Movement for National Liberation The Democratic Movement for National Liberation (, abbreviated حدتو, HADITU, , abbreviated M.D.L.N.) was a communist organization in Egypt from 1947 to 1955. HADITU was led by Henri Curiel. The movement followed the line of the National Democ ...

* Gilbert Sinoué - French author and screenwriter *

Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour Mounir Fakhry Abdel Nour (; born 21 August 1945) is an Egyptian businessman and politician. Early life and education Abdel Nour was born into a Copts, Coptic Christian family on 21 August 1945. His father, Amin Fakhry Abdel Nour (1912 – 2012) ...

- former Minister of Tourism * Magued Osman - 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 Robert Solé (born 1946) is a French journalist and novelist of Syrian origin. Born in Cairo in 1946, Solé moved to France at the age of 18. He has served as ombudsman of the Parisian newspaper ''Le Monde (; ) is a mass media in France, F ...

- French writer and journalist of Egyptian origin *

Hussein Fahmy Hussein Mahmoud Fahmy (; born 22 March 1940) is an Egyptian actor. He worked in the film and television industry for more than 50 years, specializing in film directing and appearing in over 100 film, television, and theatre productions. He gradu ...

- 110m hurdles Egyptian record holder (U20) * Nagy Habib - Professor of Surgery, Imperial College, London * Hisham Selim - actor * Mohamed Imam - actor * Tarek Nour - founder and CEO of Tarek Nour Advertising * Louis Fattal - Egyptian-French photographer * Fouad Mansour - Editor in Chief Al-Ahram Hebdo, Ahram Online * Hassan Kami - Egyptian actor and opera singer * Sherif Mounir - GM & MD, QUEST-Advanced Systems & Technology House

Notable faculty

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (; 1 May 1881 – 10 April 1955) was a French Jesuit, Catholic priest, scientist, palaeontologist, theologian, and teacher. He was Darwinian and progressive in outlook and the author of several influential theologi ...

- Jesuit, Priest, idealist philosopher, paleontologist and mystic * James J. Mullooly Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology,

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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

History

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

Notes

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