The Collège de la Sainte Famille (English: School of the Holy Family; Arabic: مدرسة العائلة المقدسة), often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1879, following a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests.
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History
The college began with 16 pupils, in 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski. In 1882 today's college was inaugurated in Faggala. The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal. The transportation of students was by fiacres. The college had 112 students.
Thereafter was built: the church (1891), the theatre (1892), the current building of Preparatory Cycle (1925), the Primary Cycle in Downtown Cairo (1930), and the Primary Cycle in Heliopolis (1934). In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 nations: Egypt, France, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Greece, England, Switzerland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Persia.
Notable alumni
Boutros Boutros Ghali - Former UN Secretary General and former Egyptian foreign minister
Prince Abbas Hilmi - member of the Egyptian Royal Family from the Muhammad Ali dynasty
Mourad Wahba Pasha - Egyptian high court judge and former Cabinet Minister
Sadek Wahba - Chairman & Managing Partner of I Squared Capital
Wassef Boutros Ghali Pasha - former Egyptian Minister of Foreign Affairs
Maximos V Hakim - late Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch
Georges Corm - Lebanese economist and former Minister of Finance of Lebanon
Henri Curiel - left-wing activist and founder of the Democratic Movement for National Liberation
Gilbert Sinoué - French author and screenwriter
Monir Fakhri Abdel Nour - former Minister of Tourism
Magued Osman - former Minister of Communications and Information Technology
Mohsen Badawi - businessman and founding member of the Canada Egypt Business Council
Ramy Lakah - Egyptian-French businessman
Robert Solé - French writer and journalist of Egyptian origin
Hussein Fahmy - 110m hurdles Egyptian record holder (U20)
Nagy Habib - Professor of Surgery, Imperial College, London
Hisham Selim - actor
Tarek Nour - founder and CEO of Tarek Nour Advertising
Louis Fattal - Egyptian-French photographer
Notable faculty
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin - Jesuit, Priest, idealist philosopher, paleontologist and mystic
James J. Mullooly Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, California State University, Fresno