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Maryville University (St. Louis, Missouri) – renounced affiliation with the Catholic Church in 1972; Medical College of Wisconsin (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) – formerly Marquette University College of Medicine; Mercy University (Dobbs Ferry, New York) - renounced affiliation with the Catholic Church in the 1970’s.
The Catholic Church established many of the world's modern hospitals. The Catholic Church is the largest non-government provider of health care services in the world. [1] It has around 18,000 clinics, 16,000 homes for the elderly and those with special needs, and 5,500 hospitals, with 65 percent of them located in developing countries. [2]
Ferdinand was born in Graz as the third son of Emperor Ferdinand II of Habsburg and his first wife, Maria Anna of Bavaria, and was baptised as Ferdinand Ernst. He grew up in Carinthia with loving care from his parents and developed great affection for his siblings and his father with whom he always found a consensus in future disagreements.
Catholic higher education includes universities, colleges, and other institutions of higher education privately run by the Catholic Church, typically by religious institutes. Those tied to the Holy See are specifically called pontifical universities .
Fordham University is a private, Roman Catholic research university located in New York City, New York, United States.Founded in 1841, it is the oldest Catholic institution of higher education in the northeastern United States, [1] the third-oldest university in the state of New York, and the only Jesuit university in New York City. [2]
The school was established as the College of Steubenville in 1946 by the Franciscan Friars of the Third Order Regular at the request of Anthony John King Mussio, the first bishop of the Diocese of Steubenville. [6] In 1974, Michael Scanlan became president and began a series of major reforms to restore the school to its Catholic heritage. [7]
Spalding University traces its origins to Nazareth Academy, one of the oldest educational institution west of the Alleghenies. [5] Nazareth Academy was founded in 1814 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and was located in Nelson County near Bardstown, Kentucky. [4]
Alvernia University was founded in 1958 by the Bernardine Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis first as college for the sisters and then as a four-year liberal arts college. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Many of the college's renovated classrooms and offices had been used for elementary and secondary education before 1958.