Kolkata was the first city where the Loreto nuns chose to set up their mission outside of their home ground in Ireland. The rest is a 175-year-old story of service and inclusion.

KOLKATA, India – As Pope Francis prepares to declare Mother Teresa a saint just two decades after her death, people touched by her life in the eastern Indian city where she lived and worked for ...

Born in Albania in 1910, Sister Mary Teresa reached India in 1928 as a Loreto nun and taught in the congregation schools in Kolkata for more than two decades before founding the Missionaries of ...

On this day, Loreto House school was opened in the city. Mother M. Delphine Hart and her group of seven Loreto nuns and five postulates had arrived in Kolkata from Ireland on December 29, 1841, ...

Irish Loreto nun Sr Cyril Mooney (86), who was recognised internationally for her work in the provision of education in India, has died in Kolkata after a long illness. From Bray, Co Wicklow, she ...

Loreto College (LCK), Kolkata was established in the year 1912 by the Loreto Sisters, with the vision of empowering women through holistic and all-around education.Today it is one of the leading ...