Heythrop College

Heythrop College is a philosophy and theology college that is part of the University of London. It was started in 1614 in Leuven in Belgium by the Society of Jesus but moved to Stonyhurst in England due to persecution of Catholics.

The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in philosophy, theology, religious studies and psychology. It became part of the University of London in 1971. It moved to Kensington in 1993.

Heythrop College Media

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  Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, which gave its name to the college

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  The English College in Liège, c. 1649

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  Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, Patron of the English Jesuit Faculties

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  Bishop François-Charles de Velbrück

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  John Carroll

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  Pope Pius VII on return from Napoleonic exile lifted the ban on Jesuits in 1814

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  Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) was an English poet, Roman Catholic convert, and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His experimental explorations in prosody (especially sprung rhythm) and his use of imagery established him as a daring innovator in a period of largely traditional verse.

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  George Tyrrell, English theologian and modernist, was excommunicated from the Catholic Church in 1908.

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  Philosopher and Theologian Bernard Lonergan SJ at Boston College