Heythrop College, University of London

Heythrop College, University of London

Motto	Nil Sine Fide (Latin)
Motto in English	"Nothing Without Faith"
Type	Public linked to a 1614 Roman Catholic foundation (in Louvain, Belgium)
Active	1971–2018
Chancellor	The Princess Royal (University of London)
Principal	Claire Ozanne (until 2019)
Location	London , England
Campus	Urban
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Affiliations	Cathedrals Group University of London Universities UK IFCU
Website	www.heythrop.ac.uk

Heythrop College, University of London, was a constituent college of the University of London between 1971 and 2018, last located in Kensington Square, London. It comprised the university's specialist faculties of philosophy and theology with social sciences, offering undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses and five specialist institutes and centres to promote research.

The college had a close affiliation with the Catholic Church, through the British Province of the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) whose scholarly tradition went back to a 1614 exiled foundation in Leuven, Belgium, and whose extensive library collections it housed. While maintaining its denominational links and ethos the college welcomed all faiths and perspectives, women as well as men.^[1]

Through Heythrop's close links with the Jesuits, it also served as the London centre for Fordham University, a Jesuit university in the United States. Other external groups, including A Call To Action (ACTA, British Catholic Association), also used meeting facilities on the site.

Following unsuccessful negotiations with St Mary's University, Twickenham, another British university, and amid some controversy, in June 2015 the college's governing body decided that the college would cease to be an independent constituent of the University of London, in 2018.^[2][3] It formally terminated operations and left the University of London on 31 January 2019.^[4] It was the first significant UK higher education institution to completely close permanently (not including mergers and name changes) since the dissolution of the original University of Northampton in 1265.^[5]