St John's College, University of Sydney
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| University | University of Sydney |
| Location | University of Sydney, H2 10 Missenden Road, Camperdown NSW, 2050 |
| Coordinates | 33°53′19.32″S 151°10′54.66″E / 33.8887000°S 151.1818500°E |
| Full name | The College of St John the Evangelist |
| Motto | Nisi Dominus Frustra (Latin) |
| Motto in English | Unless the Lord is with us, we labor in vain |
| Established | 1858 |
| Named for | St John the Evangelist – author of the fourth Gospel |
| Previous names | The College of St John the Evangelist |
| Rector | Adrian Diethelm |
| Residents | 252 |
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St John's College, or the College of St John the Evangelist, is a residential college within the University of Sydney.
Established in 1857, the college is the oldest Roman Catholic, and second-oldest overall, university college in Australia. St John's is a co-educational community of 252 undergraduate and postgraduate students. The rector, Adrian Diethelm, has held his position since 2013.
The College of St. John the Evangelist was founded by Archbishop John Bede Polding, who named it after the author of the fourth Gospel. The symbol of St John's College is the eagle, the traditional symbol of St. John. St. John's is the oldest Catholic tertiary educational institution in Australia, and the first Catholic college to be established in a preexisting, non-Catholic university in the English-speaking world since the Reformation.
In 1854, the first effort to establish a Catholic college within the University of Sydney was made at a meeting in old St Mary's Cathedral. The New South Wales government promised a pound-for-pound subsidy capped at a ₤20,000 limit, if at least ₤10,000 were raised by public subscription. The amount was met within six months from July 1857. On 15 December 1857, the act to incorporate St John's College as a college within the University of Sydney passed in the Parliament of New South Wales, and received the Royal Assent from Queen Victoria. The proclamation of the St John's College Council took place on 1 July 1858.
In 1887, James Francis Hogan wrote in The Irish in Australia that "Saint Ignatius' College, Riverview, St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill and St John's College, affiliated to the University of Sydney, are three educational institutions which reflect the highest credit on the Catholic population of the parent colony".
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