Heythrop College

Heythrop College, University of London
Motto	Nil Sine Fide (Nothing Without Faith)
Established	1971 - Constituent College of University of London 1614 in Louvain, Belgium
Chancellor	HRH The Princess Royal (University of London)
Principal	Fr. Michael Holman S.J.
Students	700
Location	Kensington, London, England
Website	www.heythrop.ac.uk

Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy and theology, as well as research in related fields.

It was founded in 1614 by the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) in Leuven, (present-day Belgium), then moved in 1624 to Liège. During the wars surrounding the French Revolution, the college moved to Britain - philosophy was taught at Stonyhurst College in Lancashire and theology in St. Beuno's in North Wales.

In 1926, the colleges came together in Heythrop Hall, Oxfordshire, then moved to London in 1970. It became a college of the University in 1971, and moved to its current Kensington location in 1993.

In 2014, Heythrop College will celebrate the 400th anniversary of its foundation. While the college still retains its original function as a centre for the education of future priests and ministers of the Catholic Church, its student body is now much larger, more international and more diverse. 950 students prepare for a range of specialist undergraduate, graduate and research degrees in philosophy and theology. The college has five specialist institutes and centres which promote research, conferences and a variety of educational outreach activities. These are the Centre for Christianity and Inter-religious Dialogue, the Centre for Eastern Christianity, the Centre for Philosophy of Religion, the Religious Life Institute and the Heythrop Institute for Religion and Society. The College library of over 180,000 volumes includes one of the finest Theology collections in the United Kingdom.

Heythrop Students' Union

The Union is managed by a team of eleven officers, elected annually. Officers have individual responsibilities, including student welfare, entertainments, societies, communications, development, campaigns and mature students. The team is headed up by the sabbatical President, a student who has either completed their studies or has taken a year out in order to fill this full-time position.

The Lion Newspaper

The Lion Newspaper was started in 2010 to provide the students of Heythrop with an independent source of information about the college as well as providing a platform for discussion and debate. The Lion is operated by 8 students editors, including 2 Senior Editors and an Editor-in-Chief. The Lion is a founding newspaper of the London Student Journalism Support Network, which won the NUS "Best Student Media" Award in 2011,

Notable alumni

Gerard Manley Hopkins

• Mor Polycarpus Augin (Eugene) Aydin (1971— ), Metropolitan and Patriarchal Vicar for the Archdiocese of the Netherlands of the Syriac Orthodox Church
• The Rev. Fr. Brendan Callaghan (1948— ), Jesuit priest and psychologist of religion
• The Rev. Fr. Frederick Copleston (1907-1984), Jesuit priest, philosopher and historian
• Cpt. Ralph Coverdale (1918-1975), soldier, behavioural psychologist, management consultant and trainer
• Msgr. Bernt Ivar Eidsvig (1953— ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Oslo
• The Rev. Fr. Mark Elvins (1939— ), Warden of Greyfriars, Oxford
• The Rt. Rvd. Michael Charles Evans (1951-2011), Roman Catholic Bishop of East Anglia
• Fr. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1899), Jesuit priest, poet and professor of classics
• The Rev. Fr. Gerard J. Hughes, Jesuit priest and theologian
• The Rev. Fr. Peter Levi (1931-2000), Jesuit priest, poet, archaeologist, travel writer, biographer, critic and Professor of Poetry at the University of Oxford
• The Rev. Fr. Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984), Jesuit priest, philosopher and theologian
• Fr. John Anthony McGuckin (1939— ), Orthodox Christian priest, academic and poet
• The Rev. Fr. Peter Milward (1925— ), Jesuit priest and literary scholar
• Martin Newland (1961— ), journalist and editor of The National
• The Rt. Rvd. Malcolm Patrick McMahon (1949— ), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nottingham
• Very Rev. Michael Anthony Moxon (1942— ), Anglican Dean of Truro Cathedral
• The Rev. Fr. James J. Quinn (1919-2010), Jesuit priest, theologian and hymnwriter
• Lady Michèle Renouf (1946— ), advertising actress and documentary film producer
• The Rev. Fr. John A. Saliba, Jesuit priest and professor of religious studies
• The Rev. Fr. Frederick Turner (1911-2001), Jesuit priest, archivist, librarian and former headmaster at Stonyhurst College
• The Rt. Rvd. Lindsay Urwin (1956— ), Anglican Bishop of Horsham
• The Rt. Rvd. Dominic Walker (1948— ), Anglican Bishop of Reading, currently Bishop of Monmouth

Notable faculty and staff

• Elizabeth Burns, Dean of Undergraduate Studies and lecturer in philosophy of religion
• Alan Carter, Former head of the philosophy department
• Dan Cohn-Sherbok, Visiting research fellow
• John Cottingham, Professorial research fellow
• Fr. Frederick Copleston, Taught as lecturer in philosophy
• Richard J. George, Former professor-in-residence
• Stephen Law, Senior lecturer in philosophy
• Joanna Collicutt McGrath, Senior lecturer in psychology
• Martyn Percy, Professorial research fellow
• The Most Rev. George Stack, Former governor
• Peter Vardy, Vice-Principal and senior lecturer in philosophy
• Miguel Vieira, Former research assistant to the Dean of Research

Similar schools

The Munich School of Philosophy is a specialist college in philosophy in Munich, Germany.

See also

• Third oldest university in England debate
• University of London
• List of the oldest schools in the world
• List of University of London people

External links

• Heythrop College website
• Heythrop: A Detailed History
• Heythrop Students Union
• The Lion Newspaper