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- The Loreto Sisters operate some 150 schools worldwide, educating over 70,000 pupils.
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In Ireland, the Sisters run a number of day-schools for girls, and until recently ran a girls' boarding school at Rathfarnham, Dublin. The Sisters established a number of girls' schools in England and Northern Ireland , although a number have gone coeducational.
The Loreto Schools are a group of all-girl Roman Catholic schools throughout the world associated with the Sisters of Loreto, founded by the English recusant nun Mary Ward and are run by the Loreto Educational Society (Loreto sisters), which in India runs 17 schools and 2 colleges.
There are now 7 Loreto Schools and a college in Calcutta, 2 schools in Darjeeling and 4 schools in Lucknow and schools in Asansol, Shillong, Delhi, Ranchi, Shimla and convents in Sikkim, Lolay, Panghatta and Bangladesh.
In December 1841 the first Loreto sisters came to India. In January 1842 they opened Loreto House, Calcutta. There are now 7 Loreto Schools and a college in Calcutta, 2 schools in Darjeeling and Lucknow and schools at Asansol, Shillong, Delhi, Bombay, Ranchi and Lolay, Pannigatta.
This School is a Catholic Institution under the management of the Sisters of the Institute of The Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters), which was founded by Mary Ward in the 17th century, who recognized the significance of education for women and the important role they play in society.
The school is one of many around the world established by the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Loreto Sisters, founded some 400 years ago by Mary Ward, and its Sydney sister school is Loreto Kirribilli. There are five other Loreto schools across Australia, in Melbourne, Ballarat, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.
Loreto Ministries also engages with two associated schools, John XXIII, Perth and Bayview College, Victoria, which both have roots in the Loreto educational tradition. Please click here to view the list of Loreto Schools.
