St Joseph's High School, East Timor

St. Joseph’s High School
East Timor
Location
Dili, East Timor
Information
Type Jesuit, Catholic
Established 1983 (1983)
Staff 26
Gender Coeducational
Enrollment 280
Website Official website

St Joseph's High School (in Portuguese: Colégio de São José) is a coeducational high school (ages 15–18) in Dili, East Timor. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Díli in 1983-84, when East Timor was still part of Indonesia. In 1993 the school was entrusted to the Society of Jesus, with a ten-year commitment.

In 2011, the Bishop of the Diocese of Dili resumed its direction.[1] Some 50 students are seminarians, planning to become priests.[2]

History

Students at the school were a part of the independence movement from at least the mid-1980s.[3]

Jesuits at the school would be a mediating force during the independence war, but priests and religious along with two Jesuits were killed by the Indonesian militia. In 1995 the faculty consisted of three Jesuits along with Jesuit scholastics, occasionally some Franciscan sisters, and Indonesian Muslims, East Timorese Christians, and Hindus from Bali.[4]

In 1999 the school had 350 students and 42 teachers. During the wave of violence which surrounded the referendum for independence in August that year, the school became a refugee camp, sheltering almost 5,000 people. After the crisis the school was reduced to 252 students and four teachers. In 2003 it had recovered to 280 with 10 full-time staff and 16 part-time teachers.[2]

At a Children's Day symposium in 2007, students from the school told of the continuing efforts needed to secure the rights of children in the country.[5] Through the Jesuit-run Sophia University the school has formed a sister-school relationship with Sophia Fukuoka Junior and Senior High School in Fukuoka City, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Jesuit Education in Timor Leste – Jesuit Asia Pacific Conference". www.sjapc.net. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  2. 1 2 "History". Colegio de Sao Jose. 27 May 2006. Retrieved 23 September 2017.
  3. ↑ Pinto, Constancio; Jardine, Matthew (1997). Inside the East Timor Resistance. James Lorimer & Company. ISBN 9781550285888.
  4. ↑ "The Boston College Chronicle". bc.edu. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  5. ↑ "Concerns mark children's day". etan.org. Retrieved 30 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "St Joseph's High School, East Timor". memim.com. Retrieved 30 September 2017.

Coordinates: 9°25′10.82″S 125°6′49.32″E / 9.4196722°S 125.1137000°E / -9.4196722; 125.1137000


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