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International Federation of Catholic Universities

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International Federation of Catholic Universities
Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques (French)
Abbreviation
  • IFCU
  • FIUC
Formation1924/1948
TypeInternational Federation and universities
Headquarters9, 21 Rue d'Assas, 75006 Paris, France
Secretary General
François Mabille
Websitehttp://fiuc-ifcu.org/

The International Federation of Catholic Universities (French: Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques) is an organisation of 226 Catholic universities throughout the world. The secretariat is at the Institut Catholique de Paris.

History

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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. It was created by a Papal Decree in 1948 as the Fœderatio Universitatum Catholicarum it became the International Federation of Catholic Universities in 1965.[1] The FIUC facilitates, research, partnership and exchange programmes between catholic institutes of education.[2] In 2023, it had 226 members universities in the world. [3]

Regional groups

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

List of secretaries-general

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  • François Mabille, November 2019[4]

References

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  1. ^ FIUC Pontifical Council of the Laity]
  2. ^ "About IFCU". Archived from the original on 2012-02-18. Retrieved 2013-07-15.
  3. ^ International Federation of Catholic Universities, About, fiuc.org, France, retrieved November 2, 2023
  4. ^ "François Mabille IFCU Secretary General". Archived from the original on 2018-01-29. Retrieved 2018-01-29.
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