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Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie | |
.jpg) Aerial view of the college buildings, 1930s | |
Other name | Комплекс споруд Хирівської єзуїтської колегії |
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| Type | Roman Catholic boarding school for boys |
| Active | 1580, re-founded 1886–1939 |
| Founders | Marian Ignacy Dzierżykraj-Morawski SJ, Henryk Jackowski SJ |
Religious affiliation | Roman Catholic (Jesuit) |
| Address | , , |
| Patron saint | Saint Joseph |
Jesuit College in Khyriv, formerly Jesuit College in Chyrów (full name: The Educational Academy of the Jesuit Fathers in Chyrów, Polish: Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy Ojców Jezuitów w Chyrowie, Ukrainian: Комплекс споруд Хирівської єзуїтської колегії), was a purpose-built Polish secondary boys college, owned by the Society of Jesus, in the occupied Austro-Hungarian partition of Poland in the late 19th century. The vast estate, comprising the college, has the rare distinction of having existed in at least five separate national Jurisdictions in the last century and a half. From 1918 the college was in independent Poland until 1939 when it ceased to exist as an institution, although not as an asset, due to foreign invasions, first by the Red Army till 1941, then by the German Wehrmacht until 1943, before being re-taken by the Soviet Union. Since 1944 the site and its entire estate was in the USSR and since 1991 has been in present-day Ukraine.
The college in Khyriv and its extensive grounds have so far not been returned to the Jesuit order, as part of war reparations. For a time it served as army barracks for the Soviet Armed Forces. In August 2013, the historic college and outbuildings were sold in a Ukrainian government auction for ₴2,231,000 (then about $275,000) to a private investor "Chyrów-rent-inwest”.[1]
As a (gimnazjum), the college had a Jesuit educational tradition reaching back to 1580 in the Commonwealth of Two Nations. It opened in Chyrów (now Khyriv, Ukraine), near Przemyśl then in the Austrian Partition of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, just as the Jesuit college in Tarnopol was closed down by the authorities in 1886. It survived and flourished despite obstacles from the Austrian authorities, and was to continue the tradition of the former Jesuit Colleges in Polotsk (1580-1820) and Tarnopol until the Soviet invasion of Poland (1939).[2] It was considered one of the most prestigious boys' schools in Poland and many of its alumni went on to notable careers.[3]
- ^ "Kurier Galicyjski", nr 19 z dnia 15-28.10.2013 r.
- ^ "Konwikt w Chyrowie - Zakład Naukowo-Wychowawczy".
- ^ Topij-Stempińska, Beata (2019). Uczniowie Jezuickich Instytutcji Edukacyjnych w Galicji w XIX Wieku: Portret Zbiorowy (PDF) (in Polish and English). Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Ignatium w Krakowie. ISBN 978-83-7614-414-6.