Convent of Jesus and Mary

The Convent of Jesus and Mary ("CJM") is a network of Roman Catholic schools founded by the Congregation of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. The school network originating in east-central France in the 19th century has since its inception expanded to several countries in Europe, Asia, Africa, North and South America.

There are schools in the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Italy, England, and Germany, the United States, Canada, Mexico, Colombia, and Bolivia, Lebanon, Syria, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, India, Pakistan, and the Philippines.^[1]

Claudine Thévenet (1774–1837) (known as Mary of St. Ignatius) founded the religious institute of the Religious of Jesus and Mary, a Roman Catholic religious congregation of women dedicated to the education and service of the poor in Lyon, France, on 5 October 1818.

Some of the CJM schools include:

India:

• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ambala (1909)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Dehradun (1901)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Delhi (1919)
• Mount Mary Convent High School (1913)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Mumbai; Fort Convent, Mumbai (1855)
• St. Anne’s High School, Fort, Mumbai (1929)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Mussoorie (1845)
• St. Anne’s School, Camp, Pune (1860)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Ranaghat (1996)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Chelsea, Shimla (1864)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary School, Vadodara (1946)

Colleges :

• Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi (1968)
• St. Bede's College, Shimla (1904)

Ireland:

• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Gortnor Abbey, Co. Mayo (1912)

Pakistan:

• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Sialkot (1856)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree (1876)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Lahore (1876)
• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Karachi (1957)

United Kingdom:

• Convent of Jesus and Mary, Thornton College, Thornton, Buckingham
• Convent of Jesus and Mary Language College, London