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Heythrop College is a philosophy and theology college that is part of the University of London. It was started in 1614 in Leuven in Belgium by the Society of Jesus but moved to Stonyhurst in England due to persecution of Catholics.

The college offers undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses in philosophy, theology, religious studies and psychology. It became part of the University of London in 1971. It moved to Kensington in 1993.

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Heythrop Park, Oxfordshire, which gave its name to the college
The English College in Liège, c. 1649
Maximilian I, Elector of Bavaria, Patron of the English Jesuit Faculties
Bishop François-Charles de Velbrück
John Carroll
Pope Pius VII on return from Napoleonic exile lifted the ban on Jesuits in 1814
Gerard Manley Hopkins
George Tyrrell
Bernard Lonergan SJ
Joseph A. Munitiz SJ
The Maria Assumpta Centre, left with the Marie Eugénie Chapel and Heythrop College to the right
The Maria Assumpta gardens
Keith Ward
Polycarpus Augin Aydin
Sarah Mullally

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