Father General Arturo Sosa visited Andalusia, Spain, from November 20th until November 23rd. The visit included some time in the cities of Seville, Córdoba, Úbeda, Granada and Málaga. In each of these cities he visited the Jesuit communities and the major Jesuit institutions, and he met with Jesuits and collaborators. During his visit he was accompanied by the Assistant for Southern Europe, Fr Cipriano Díaz, the Provincial of Spain, Fr Antonio España, and his Delegate for the third age, Fr Ramón Fresneda.
An important moment of the visit was the official opening of Universidad Loyola’s new campus in the outskirts of Seville, in the town of Dos Hermanas. The new campus has a surface of 29.000 Km2, it has been designed to be sustainable, and disposes of a state-of-the-art technological infrastructure. The inauguration was presided by the president of the regional government of Andalusia, the archbishop of Seville, the mayor of Dos Hermanas and the Rector of Loyola University. All the Rectors and Directors of the different higher education institutions of the Province of Spain, the UNIJES network, were present at the inauguration. There were also present the Director of ICAM Engineering school in France, representatives from Loyola Chicago University, and the President of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities in Africa and Madagascar.
During his visit to Andalusia Fr. General also participated in a Congress on Saint John of Avila, Doctor of the Church, in Cordoba. He visited the Sagrada Familia’s School of Education in Úbeda and Granada Faculty of Theology. He also visited a couple of Jesuit schools in different social contexts in Seville as well as the Jesuit infirmary in Málaga.
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