Lycée Léonin
Coordinates: 38°1′22.92″N 23°43′58.46″E / 38.0230333°N 23.7329056°E The Lycée Léonin (Greek: Λεόντειο Λύκειο) is the oldest independent educational institution in Athens, Greece. The school belongs to the Catholic Church and is run by the Community of the Marist Brothers (Frères Maristes), a group of Catholic monks dedicated to education. It is a non-profit co-educational private school, founded in 1838. The school has campuses in Nea Smyrni and Patissia.
On July 25, 1838, approximately 14 months from the official opening of the Kapodistrian University of Athens, the Catholic priest Constantine Sargologos was granted, "on the order of the Ecclesiastic and Public Education of Royal Secretariat Territory", authorization for the foundation of a primary school. The new school was named after the patron saint of Athens, St. Dionysius the Areopagite, and functioned somewhere in Plaka.
The St. Dionysius School had been working humbly and silently until 1889, a year when the Catholic Bishop of Athens achieved its extension in a school with two study circles (elementary and secondary) and was renamed "Lycée Léonin of St. Dionysius", in honor of the Pope Leo XIII, who admired Greece and helped financially with the materialization of this project.
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