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Xavier University (/ ˈzeɪvjər / ZAY-vyure[8][9][10]) is a private Jesuit university in Cincinnati, Ohio. It is the sixth-oldest Catholic and fourth-oldest Jesuit university in the United States. [11] Xavier has an undergraduate enrollment of 4,455 students and graduate enrollment of 1,193 students. [5] The school's system comprises the main ...
During his forty years he visited almost every state of the Union, preaching in English, French, or German, as best suited the nationality of his hearers. In the year 1854 alone he delivered nearly a thousand sermons, and in 1864 he preached about forty-five missions. [2] He retired to Cincinnati around 1882, where he died in 1888 at the age of 82.
Fenwick Hall at the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. The Jesuits (Society of Jesus) in the Catholic Church have founded and managed a number of educational institutions, including the notable secondary schools, colleges, and universities listed here.
July 18, 1980. St. Francis Xavier Church is a Catholic parish located at 611 Sycamore Street, Cincinnati, Ohio. This was the location of the first diocesan cathedral and the center of early Catholic life in the city. It was dedicated to St. Peter on December 17, 1826. Christ Church, founded in 1819, the city's first Catholic church, was located ...
The Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities (AJCU) is a consortium of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and three theological centers in the United States, Canada, and Belize committed to advancing academic excellence by promoting and coordinating collaborative activities, sharing resources, and advocating and representing the work of Jesuit higher education at the national and ...
The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈdʒɛʒuɪts, ˈdʒɛzju -/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; [ 2 ] Latin: Iesuitae), [ 3 ] is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
August 19, 1768. Province of Maryland, British America. Died. September 26, 1832. (1832-09-26) (aged 64) Wooster, Ohio, United States. Edward Dominic Fenwick, O.P. (August 19, 1768 – September 26, 1832) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church, a Dominican friar and the first Bishop of Cincinnati.
St. Xavier is the oldest high school in the Cincinnati area and one of the oldest in the nation. [18] It grew out of the Athenaeum, which opened in 1831 in downtown Cincinnati. From 1869 to 1934, the high school program formed the lower division of St. Xavier College, now Xavier University. The high school moved to its present location in 1960.