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International Federation of Catholic Universities

International Federation of Catholic Universities

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The International Federation of Catholic Universities (IFCU) is an organisation of over 200 Catholic universities throughout the world.[citation needed]

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History

Founded in 1924.[2] Created by a Papal Decree in 1948 as the Fœderatio Universitatum Catholicarum it became the International Federation of Catholic Universities in 1965.[3] The federation has its origins in collaboration in 1924 between the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and the Catholic university of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. The FIUC facilitates, research, partnership and exchange programmes between catholic institutes of education.[4] The secretariat is in Paris; Institut Catholique de Paris.[citation needed]

Regional groups

The IFCU is broken up into a number of regions of the world:

List of secretaries-general

  • François Mabille, November 2019[5]

References

  1. [1]
    IFCU statutes, Article 2
  2. [2]
    IFCU STATUTES. Art 1
  3. [3]
    FIUC Pontifical Council of the Laity]
  4. [4]
    "About IFCU". Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  5. [5]
    "François Mabille IFCU Secretary General". Archived from the original on 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
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