List of schools named after Francis Xavier
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A multitude of schools have been named after St. Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier
Francis Xavier, born Francisco de Jasso y Azpilicueta was a pioneering Roman Catholic missionary born in the Kingdom of Navarre and co-founder of the Society of Jesus. He was a student of Saint Ignatius of Loyola and one of the first seven Jesuits, dedicated at Montmartre in 1534...

, a Spanish Roman Catholic saint and co-founder of the Society of Jesus
Society of Jesus
The Society of Jesus is a Catholic male religious order that follows the teachings of the Catholic Church. The members are called Jesuits, and are also known colloquially as "God's Army" and as "The Company," these being references to founder Ignatius of Loyola's military background and a...

. This page lists notable educational institutions named after St. Xavier, arranged by country and region. Many of these schools are run by the Jesuit order, while some are operated by the Xaverian Brothers
Xaverian Brothers
The Xaverian Brothers or Congregation of St. Francis Xavier are a religious order founded by Theodore James Ryken in Bruges, Belgium in 1839 and named after Saint Francis Xavier...

 and various dioceses.

Australian Capital Territory

  • St. Francis Xavier College, Canberra

New South Wales

  • St Francis Xavier College, Hamilton, Newcastle
  • Xavier High School, Albury
    Xavier High School, Albury
    Xavier High School Albury is a Catholic Secondary School located within the New South Wales city of Albury, Australia.Xavier High School is supported and partially funded by The Catholic School's Office, Diocese of Wagga Wagga, continuing a long history of Catholic education in the region, forming...


Alberta

  • St. Francis Xavier High School, Edmonton
    St. Francis Xavier High School (Edmonton)
    St. Francis Xavier High School is a high school in west Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. It is operated by Edmontons Catholic School System.-Academic program:...


Ontario

  • St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School
    St. Francis Xavier Catholic High School
    St.Francis Xavier Catholic High School or St.FX is a high school in Ottawa, Canada serving grades 7-12. It is a new high school which was opened in 2009. It is located at 3740 Spratt Road, Gloucester, Ontario. The school mainly serves the communities of Riverside South and Gloucester. June 2011 saw...

    , Ottawa
  • St. Francis Xavier Secondary School, Mississauga

Kowloon

  • St. Francis Xavier's College
    St. Francis Xavier's College
    St. Francis Xavier's College is a Catholic Secondary School for boys, located in Tai Kok Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. The school in Kowloon was founded in 1955...

    , Tai Kok Tsui
  • St. Francis Xavier's School, Tsuen Wan
    St. Francis Xavier's School, Tsuen Wan
    St. Francis Xavier's School, Tsuen Wan is located at 60 - 64 Ham Tin Street, Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong. The school was founded in 1963. This school is also the brother school of St. Francis Xavier's College....


Andhra Pradesh

  • St. Xavier's High School, Madannapet, Hyderabad
  • St. Xavier's Elementary and High School (E.M. and T.M.), Xavier Nagar, Eluru, West Godavari District

Delhi

  • St. Xavier's School, Civil Lines
    St. Xavier's School, Delhi
    St. Xavier's School, Delhi, India, is a Roman Catholic Christian, co-educational school from prep to grade 12 founded and run by Jesuits. The school is located on Raj Niwas Marg in the Civil Lines area of Delhi, India...

  • St. Xavier's School, Rohini
    St. Xavier's School, Rohini
    St. Xavier's School, Rohini, is a Christian English Medium school under the management of the Society of Jesus, an international Christian religious order. The school is recognised by the Board of Education Delhi Administration and is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary...


Goa

  • St. Xavier's College, Bastora
  • St. Xavier's College, Mapusa
    St. Xavier's College, Mapusa, Goa
    St. Xavier's is a college located in the North Goan town of Mapusa . It is the largest and oldest college north of the Mandovi River in Goa, a state along the west coast of India. Its current principal isDr. Fr...


Gujarat

  • St. Xavier's, Adipur
    St. Xavier's, Adipur
    St. Xavier's is a school in Adipur, Kutch District, India founded in July 1983. The school is managed by catholic minority trust-"Kutch Kelwani Mandal". The school's motto is "For God and for Man". The school houses classes from K.G. to XII English medium and K.G. to X .-External links:*...

  • St. Xavier's High School, Gandhinagar
    St. Xavier's, Gandhinagar
    St. Xavier's School, Gandhinagar, began in the year 1970, at the invitation of the Government of Gujarat. It began as a joint venture with Mt. Carmel school,Gandhinagar and hence was aptly named Xavier's-Carmel. The school was situated in Sector 20 initially and then land was given to the...

  • St. Xavier's High School, Bhuj
  • St. Xavier's High School, Jamnagar
    St. Xavier's High School, Jamnagar
    St. Xavier's School is a co-ed school in Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. It offers courses from Kindergarten to Higher Secondary divisions and enrolls approximately 2,300 students. The school was founded in 1955 by the Fathers of Society of Jesus; the first class had only 30 students....

  • St. Xavier's High School, Mirzapur
    St. Xavier's High School, Mirzapur
    St. Xavier's High School, Mirzapur is an English-Gujarati medium primary and secondary school located at Mirzapur in Ahmedabad, India. It was established in 1935....

    , Ahmedabad
  • St. Xavier's High School, Surat
  • St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall
    St. Xavier's High School Loyola Hall
    St. Xavier's High School, Loyola Hall is an English-Gujarati medium primary and secondary school located at Navrangpura in Ahmedabad, India. The school is spread over a site of about 4 acres .-History:...

    , Ahmedabad

Jharkhand

  • St. Xavier's, Hazaribagh
    St. Xavier's, Hazaribagh
    St. Xavier’s School, Hazaribagh is a Jesuit school in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand, India. It is one of the best schools in eastern India. It was established in 1952 by an Australian Jesuit missionary, Rev Fr. John Moore. He was then 32 years old and later went on to win the National Teachers Award. In...

  • St. Xavier's College, Ranchi
    St. Xavier's College, Ranchi
    St Xavier's College, Ranchi, in the Indian state of Jharkhand, was started by the Ranchi Province of the Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order founded by St. Ignatius Loyola in 1540...

  • St. Xavier's School, Bokaro
    St. Xavier's School (Bokaro)
    St. Xavier's School, established on July 18, 1966, is a private school in Bokaro Steel City, Jharkhand,India, and is the oldest and one of the more renowned private schools in Bokaro Steel City, .-History and origin:...

  • St. Xavier's School, Ranchi
  • St. Xavier's School, Sahibganj
  • Xavier Institute of Social Service
    Xavier Institute of Social Service
    Xavier Institute of Social Service is an educational institute in Ranchi, India. It was established as an extension department of St. Xavier's College, Ranchi, in 1955 with the objective of training young men and women in Rural Development, Personnel Management and Industrial Relations...

    , Ranchi
  • Xavier Labour Relations Institute, now the XLRI School of Business and Human Resources
    XLRI
    The XLRI School of Business and Human Resources, Jamshedpur is a graduate business school in Jamshedpur, India. Established in 1949, XLRI is arguably the oldest business school in India and is regarded as consistently among the top 5 business schools of the country...

    , Jamshedpur

Karnataka

  • St. Xavier's Boys High School, Shivajinagar, Bangalore
  • St. Xavier's School, Belgaum
  • Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship
    Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship
    Xavier Institute of Management and Entrepreneurship is a business school located in Electronic City area of Bangalore, India. It has a fully residential campus with access to seamless learning facilities, and is situated in the heart of the Silicon Valley of India. XIME is the only Institute in...

    , Electronics City, Bangalore

Maharashtra

  • St. Xavier High School, Bhayander, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's Boys Academy, Churchgate, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's College, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Andheri, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Borivli, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Fort
    St. Xavier's High School, Fort
    St. Xavier's High School, Fort is an English medium school for boys in Fort, Mumbai, India.- History :St. Xavier's was established in 1869 by the Jesuits in the neo-gothic building it occupies to this day. Fragments of its history are visible in the corridors of the primary section in the form of...

    , Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Mira Road
  • St. Xavier's High School, Nagpur
  • St. Xavier's High School, Naigaon, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Nerul
    St. Xavier's High School, Nerul
    St. Xavier's High School,Nerul is first convent school of Nerul, Navi Mumbai, India. It is situated in Sector - 3 , Phase - 1, Nerul , Navi Mumbai. This school started its functioning in 1985. In fact, it is one of the oldest schools of Nerul, Navi Mumbai.St. Xavier's High School is one of the best...

  • St. Xavier's High School, Panchgani
  • St. Xavier's High School, Vile Parle West, Mumbai
  • St. Xavier's High School, Virar
  • St. Xavier's School, Kolhapur
    St. Xavier's School, Kolhapur
    St. Xavier's High School, Kolhapur, India, is an English medium school in the town of Kolhapur in southern Maharashtra. It admitted only boys till 2008 but is now coeducational. It admits students from kindergarten till the Secondary School Certificate i.e. the 10th standard...

  • St. Xavier's Technical Institute
    St. Xavier's Technical Institute
    St. Xavier's Technical Institute is an electronics school in Mumbai, India.The Institute's Marine Department has been awarded ISO 9001:2000 Quality certification....

    , Mumbai

Orissa

  • St. Xavier's High School, Ambapua, Berhampur
  • St. Xavier's High School, Cuttack
  • St. Xavier's High School, Kedargouri, Bhubaneswar
  • St. Xavier's High School, Khandagiri, Bhubaneswar
  • Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
    Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar
    Xavier Institute of Management, Bhubaneswar , is a business school in India, located in Bhubaneswar, the capital of the eastern Indian state of Orissa.-Foundation:...


Punjab

  • St. Xavier's High School, Mohali
  • St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School, Bathinda
  • St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School, Chandigarh
  • St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School
    St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School
    St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School is a co-ed school, located in sector-44-C, Chandigarh, India. Andrew John Gosain of St. Xavier's Senior Secondary School along with the group of distinguished Christian educationalists established, St. Xavier's School at Chandigarh, Panchkula and Mohali.The...

    , Rampura Phul

Tamil Nadu

  • St. Xavier's College, Tirunelveli
  • St. Xavier's College of Engineering, Chunkankadai
    St. Xavier's College of Engineering, Chunkankadai
    St. Xavier's College of Engineering has been established and managed by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Nagercoil . It was located 5 km west of main town Nagercoil. The college was approved By Government of Tamilnadu and was recognized by AICTE, New Delhi.The College was Affiliated to Anna...


West Bengal

  • St. Francis Xavier School, Salt Lake City
    St. Francis Xavier School, Kolkata
    St. Francis Xavier School, Kolkata, India, is a school running classes from Class I - Class XII. The school is located in Salt Lake City, India and is situated opposite the Hyatt Regency, Kolkata and the Salt Lake Stadium....

     (Bidhannagar)
  • St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
    St. Xavier's College, Calcutta
    St. Xavier's College is located in Kolkata, India, and is named after St. Francis Xavier, a Jesuit saint of the 16th century, who travelled to India. It is an autonomous college affiliated to the University of Calcutta. It gained autonomy in July 2006, thus becoming the first autonomous college of...

     (Kolkata)
  • St. Xavier's Collegiate School
    St. Xavier's Collegiate School
    St. Xavier's Collegiate School was established in 1860 in Kolkata, India by missionaries of the Society of Jesus. The school is named after St. Francis Xavier...

    , Kolkata
  • St. Xavier's High School, Haldia
  • St. Xavier's Institution, Panihati
    St. Xavier's Institution (Panihati)
    St. Xavier’s Institution, is a private high school located in located in Panihati, West Bengal, India. It is a co-educational English medium I.S.C.-syllabus school that educates up to year 12. The school has an open admission policy, accepting students of all castes, creeds and religion. St...

  • St. Xavier's School, Burdwan
    St. Xavier's School, Burdwan
    St. Xavier's School is a coeducational secondary school in Burdwan , West Bengal, India. It was founded in 1964. Around 1,200 students are enrolled at the school.-History:...

     (Bardhaman)
  • St. Xavier's School, Durgapur
    St. Xavier's School, Durgapur
    St. Xavier's School, Durgapur, is a school in Durgapur, West Bengal, India. The school was established in 1963 and is presently managed by Headmaster Reverend Father M.S. Arockiasamy, S.J. Rev. Fr. A.Watier S.J. from Belgium was the chief architect in bringing the school to huge repute.- History...


South Sumatra

  • Franciscus Xaverius Junior High School, Palembang
  • Franciscus Xaverius Senior High School, Palembang

Bagmati

  • St. Xavier's College, Maitighar, Kathmandu
  • St. Xavier's School, Godavari
    St. Xavier's School, Godavari
    St Xavier's School, located in Godavari, Nepal, about 15 k.m. outside the capital, is a school started by Jesuit Fathers in 1951. After the initial start of the school and due to increasing number of students, the primary school was shifted to Jawalakhel and the high school at Godavari...

    , Kathmandu
  • St. Xavier's School, Jawalakhel, Kathmandu

Canterbury

  • Xavier College, now Catholic Cathedral College
    Catholic Cathedral College, Christchurch
    Catholic Cathedral College, Christchurch is an integrated Catholic co-educational secondary school in Christchurch, New Zealand. It was founded in 1987 but its origins go back to more than a 100 years earlier...

    , Christchurch

Northern Province

  • St. Xavier's Boys' College
    St. Xavier's Boys' College
    St. Xavier's Boys' College is a boys public national school in Mannar, Sri Lanka.-External links:*...

    , Mannar
  • St. Xavier's Girls' College
    St. Xavier's Girls' College
    St. Xavier's Girls' College is a girls public national school in Mannar, Sri Lanka....

    , Mannar

England

  • St. Francis Xavier's College, Liverpool
    St. Francis Xavier's College (Liverpool)
    St. Francis Xavier's College is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form college located in Woolton, Liverpool, England. Year 7 to Year 11 are male only, whereas the Sixth Form are coeducational....

    , Merseyside
  • St. Francis Xavier College
    Saint Francis Xavier College (England)
    Saint Francis Xavier College is a Roman Catholic Sixth Form College. It is located on the borders of Clapham and Balham close to Clapham South tube station, London. It offers courses for 16-19 year olds, as well as Adult Education classes....

    , Clapham, Lambeth, London
  • St. Francis Xavier School, Richmond
    St Francis Xavier School
    St. Francis Xavier School is a coeducational, voluntary aided school situated on Darlington Road, Richmond, North Yorkshire, England. It is a joint Roman Catholic and Church of England school, serving young people aged 11-16 from both denominations and other backgrounds.- Controversies :St...

    , North Yorkshire
  • Xaverian College
    Xaverian College
    Xaverian Roman Catholic Sixth form College is a College in the city of Manchester.-Admissions:It lies in the inner city suburb of Rusholme close to Wilmslow Road and Oxford Road...

    , Manchester, North West England

California

  • Xavier College Preparatory High School
    Xavier College Preparatory High School (California)
    Xavier College Preparatory High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Palm Desert, California. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Bernardino. Xavier College Prep is the first and only Catholic high school east of the Riverside/San Bernardino corridor and west of the...

    , Palm Desert

Kansas

  • St. Xavier High School, Junction City
    St. Xavier High School (Junction City, Kansas)
    St. Xavier High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Junction City, Kansas. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Salina.-History:St. Xavier Catholic School was established in 1871 to serve parishioners of St. Xavier Church....


Louisiana

  • Xavier University of Louisiana
    Xavier University of Louisiana
    Xavier University of Louisiana , located in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college with the distinction of being the only historically black Roman Catholic institution of higher education...

    , New Orleans
  • Xavier University Preparatory School
    Xavier University Preparatory School
    Xavier University Preparatory School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New Orleans....

    , New Orleans

New York

  • St. Francis Xavier Elementary School
    St. Francis Xavier Elementary School
    St. Francis Xavier Elementary School is a Catholic school located in the The Bronx borough of New York City, New York. It was founded in 1929 by Father Kearney....

    , Bronx, New York City
  • Xavier High School
    Xavier High School (New York City)
    Xavier High School is a independent Jesuit university-preparatory high school for young men located at 30 West 16th Street, in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was founded in 1847, as the College of St. Francis Xavier by Father John Larkin, S.J...

    , Manhattan, New York City
  • Xavier Institute for Higher Learning
    X-Mansion
    In the fictional Marvel Comics universe, the X-Mansion is the common name for Professor Xavier's mansion. It is the base of operations and training site of the X-Men and the location of a school for mutant teenagers, the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, formerly Xavier's School for Gifted...

    , North Salem (fictional)

Ohio

  • St. Francis Xavier Seminary, now Athenaeum of Ohio
    Athenaeum of Ohio
    The Athenaeum of Ohio – Mount St. Mary's Seminary of the West, originally St. Francis Xavier Seminary, is the third-oldest Roman Catholic seminary in the United States and is currently located at 6616 Beechmont Avenue in the Cincinnati, Ohio neighborhood of Mt. Washington, in the former Saint...

    , Cincinnati
  • St. Xavier High School, Cincinnati
  • St. Xavier Commercial School
    St. Xavier Commercial School
    St. Xavier Parish Commercial School, officially The Convent School, was a private secondary school in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Founded in 1904 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur, it remained open until 1960. It was associated with St. Francis Xavier Church of the Roman Catholic...

    , Cincinnati (defunct)
  • Xavier University, Cincinnati

South Carolina

  • St. Francis Xavier High School, Sumter
    St. Francis Xavier High School (Sumter, South Carolina)
    St. Francis Xavier High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Sumter, South Carolina. It is run independent of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston.-Background:...

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