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The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (/ ˈ dʒ ɛ ʒ u ɪ t s, ˈ dʒ ɛ zj u-/ JEZH-oo-its, JEZ-ew-; Latin: Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
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The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu, S.J. and S.I. or...
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The superior general of the Society of Jesus is the leader...
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Chi siamo. La Compagnia di Gesù è stata fondata nel 1540 da Sant’Ignazio di Loyola e dai suoi compagni. La missione dei gesuiti è una missione di riconciliazione, che opera perché uomini e donne possano riconciliarsi con Dio, con loro stessi, l’uno con l’altro e con la creazione di Dio.
The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540 by Saint Ignatius Loyola and his companions. The mission of the Jesuits is a mission of justice and reconciliation, working so that women and men can be reconciled with God, with themselves, with each other and with God’s creation.
- The Suppression of The Society
- Restoration of The Society
- The Society in The Last 200 Years
- “The World Is Our House”
Jesuits were called the schoolmasters of Europe during the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, not only because of their schools but also for their pre-eminence as scholars, scientists and for the thousands of textbooks they composed. During their first two centuries, the Jesuits were involved in a burst of intellectual activity, and were engaged in ove...
Pope Pius VII restored the Society in 1814, forty-one years after the Suppression. Although many of the men had died by then, the memory of their educational work had not, and the new Society was flooded with requests to take over new colleges: in France alone, for instance, 86 schools were offered to the Jesuits.
Since 1814, the Society has experienced growth and has since then surpassed the apostolic breadth of the early Society in its educational, intellectual, pastoral and missionary endeavours. The 16,000-plus Jesuits worldwide come from 112 countries and belong to approximately 80 provinces and regions, but the order has a universal character that tran...
said the early Jesuit Jerome Nadal. He was referring, on one level, to the world outside of churches and monasteries, but also to the multitudes of God’s people and the expanse of human cultures. As Jesuit leaders explained at their General Congregation in 2008,
We are the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic order of priests and brothers founded half a millennium ago by the soldier-turned-mystic Ignatius Loyola. But most people call us “the Jesuits.”. In the vision of our founder, we seek to “find God in all things.”.
