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St. Ignatius of Loyola College, Caracas

private primary and secondary school in Venezuela

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ26258470 ↗
Source-derived summary

St. Ignatius of Loyola College, Caracas, (Colegio San Ignacio de Loyola) is a private Catholic primary and secondary school located in Caracas, Venezuela Founded by the Jesuits in 1923, the school is coeducational, and covers pre-primary through high school.

History

Ignatius College was founded in 1923 with the encouragement of the Catholic Archbishop. In 1940 the college received a new building. In the early 1950s it moved to Chacao at Av. Sta Teresa de Jesus, its present location.

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“St. Ignatius of Loyola College, Caracas” enters the record as private primary and secondary school in Venezuela. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ignatius, Loyola and College can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1923, 1940—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1923-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ignatius, Loyola and College.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26258470. Authority coordinates are 10.499, -66.858. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1923 and 1940.

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This entry incorporates text from “St. Ignatius of Loyola College, Caracas” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.