The International Federation of Catholic Universities (French: Fédération Internationale des Universités Catholiques) is an organisation of 226 Catholic universities throughout the world. The secretariat is at the Institut Catholique de Paris.
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History
The federation has its origins in collaboration in 1924 between the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan and the Catholic university of Nijmegen in the Netherlands. It was created by a Papal Decree in 1948 as the Fœderatio Universitatum Catholicarum it became the International Federation of Catholic Universities in 1965. The FIUC facilitates, research, partnership and exchange programmes between catholic institutes of education. In 2023, it had 226 members universities in the world.
Regional groups
The IFCU is broken up into a number of regions of the world:
Federation of European Catholic Universities (FUCE)
Association of Catholic Universities and Institutes of Africa and Madagascar (ACUIAM)
Association of Southeast and East Asian Catholic Colleges and Universities (ASEACCU)
The Organisation of Catholic Universities in Latin America (ODUCAL)
Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (ACCU) in North America
The Xavier Board of Higher Education in India
List of secretaries-general
François Mabille, November 2019