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Jesuit church, Rijeka. Jesuit college in Zagreb (1607–1773), now Klovićevi Dvori Gallery and St. Catherine's Church; precursor to the Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb. The Neoacademia Zagrabiensis, created within the college (1662–1773), was the precursor to the University of Zagreb; Jesuit church in Rijeka, now Rijeka Cathedral (1638–1773)
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The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ 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.
St. Francis Xavier Church (Missoula, Montana) St. Francis Xavier College Church; Saint Ignatius Church (San Francisco) St. Ignatius Church (Baltimore) St. John's Parish (Omaha, Nebraska) St. Mary's Mission (Kansas) St. Patrick's Roman Catholic Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) St. Peter's Catholic Church (Charlotte, North Carolina)
"Black Pope" is an unofficial designation given to the position of Superior General of the Order of the Jesuits. [2] The name follows from his leadership of the largest Catholic, male religious order [ 3 ] and from the colour of the plain black cassock worn by members of the Society, including the Superior General. [ 4 ]
There are many churches of the Roman Catholic Jesuit order, many of them patterned after Il Gesu in Rome and dedicated to Saint Ignatius. Nearly all have normal dedications to saints etc. but despite this some are usually known just as the Jesuit Church of the city, including:
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States , under which all the provinces in the two countries are organized.
Although the Jesuits tried to establish missions from present-day Florida in 1566 up to present-day Virginia in 1571, the Jesuit missions wouldn't gain a strong foothold in North America until 1632, with the arrival of the Jesuit Paul Le Jeune. Between 1632 and 1650, 46 French Jesuits arrived in North America to preach among the Indians.