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Vilnius Jesuit High School (Lithuanian: Vilniaus jėzuitų gimnazija) is a private Catholic gymnasium, located in Vilnius, Lithuania. Founded in 1570 by members of the Jesuit order, the school provides an education from grades 1 through to grade 12. They also have preschool classes. The school is considered to be one of the most renowned schools in Lithuania and is aided by the German Federal Foreign Office.




History



Vilnius Jesuit High School could be one of the oldest schools in Lithuania, if the current school is considered the successor to the Jesuit Collegium which was turned into Vilnius University during the confrontation between Lithuanian Protestants and Lithuanian Catholics during the Reformation period.
Collegium Vilnense Societati Jesu was established in 1570, with the first rector, Stanislaw Varševickis, S.J., teaching logic, mathematics, theology, and Hebrew. After the suppression of the Society of Jesus in 1773, the school did not reopen until 1921 with 135 boys. By 1938 there were 580 in the gymnasium. Disrupted in 1939 during the Soviet occupation, the school was reopened in its present status only in 1995 with 336 students and 54 teachers, classes 5 through 11. Lithuanian, German, and English were taught. In 1999 it received the humanities gymnasium status.




Directors



Fr. Antanas Gražulis, S.J.
Faust Meškuotis
Br. Virgilijus Saulius, S.J.
Fr. Arthur Sederevičius, S.J.
Edita Sičaitė, SSC




See also



Kaunas Jesuit Gymnasium
List of schools in Lithuania
List of Jesuit schools




References






External links


"Šv. Ignaco Lojolos kolegija" [St. Ignatius of Loyola Vocational College]. www.ilk.lt (in Lithuanian). Retrieved 2017-01-29.

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