Concordia College (Manila)
Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia (Spanish) | |
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| Type | Private basic and higher education institution / Women's college (until 1985) |
| Established | May 3, 1868 |
| Founder | Margarita Roxas de Ayala |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic (Daughters of Charity) |
| President | Ana Janoy Amar |
| Principal | Nereann Tuaño |
| Address | , , 14°34′52″N 121°00′09″E / 14.5812°N 121.0025°E |
| Patroness | Mary, mother of Jesus (Under the title Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception) |
| Colors | Blue and White |
| Website | laconcordia |
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The College of the Immaculate Conception of Concordia (Spanish: Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia), commonly known as Concordia College, is a private Catholic basic and higher education institution run by Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul in Paco, Manila, in the Philippines. The college was founded in 1868.
History
The Colegio de la Inmaculada Concepcion de la Concordia was established by Margarita Roxas from the Zóbel de Ayala family who converted her three-and-a-half-hectare villa, the La Concordia Estate in Paco, Manila, into a girls' school. She requested eight nuns from the Daughters of Charity from Spain to come to the Philippines to administer the school. They arrived on May 3, 1868, and operated the free school or Escuela Pia. Sixty students enrolled and were taught religion, good manners, reading and writing, simple arithmetic, culture, and arts like sewing, embroidery, cooking, needlecraft and household work. The medium of instruction was Spanish.[1][2][3]
The existing structure was expanded. By the early 1900s, five sixth of the Concordia complex was added since 1868. It also became the headquarters of the Daughters of Charity in the Philippines.[4]
The school building was damaged during the 1945 Battle of Manila of World War II.[5]
The Concordia College's higher education department began admitting male students in 1985 becoming co-educational.[6]
References
- ^ "Greater Good Legacy: Attainable education for Filipinos". Manila Bulletin. March 15, 2023. Retrieved November 16, 2025.
- ^ "About La Concordia College". Concordia College. Archived from the original on April 15, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2015.
- ^ Fernandez, Pablo (October 1970). "The History of The Church in the Philippines* 1521-1898: Religious Orders and Congregations of Women" (PDF). Boletin Eclesiastico de Filipinas. XLIV (497): 726. Retrieved November 16, 2025 – via Open Access Repository @ University of the Philippines Diliman.
- ^ Blair, Emma Helen; Robertson, James Alexander, eds. (October 1906). The Philippine Islands, 1493–1898. Cleveland, Ohio: The Arthur H. Clark Company. pp. 309–310. Retrieved November 16, 2025 – via Project Gutenberg.
- ^ "Did You Know: La Concordia College; Japanese attack". Philippine Daily Inquirer. February 8, 2017. Retrieved November 16, 2025.
- ^ "Concordia College: Throughout the Centuries". Concordia College Manila. Retrieved November 16, 2025.
External links
Media related to Concordia College (Manila) at Wikimedia Commons- La Concordia College, early photo of La Concordia
