page_title: Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School
section_title: The patron of the school
hierarchical_section_title: Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School / The patron of the school
caption_attribution_description: English: Etching of Bishop Richard Challoner.
context_page_description: Bishop Challoner Catholic Federation of Schools is a Roman Catholic secondary school and sixth form, located in the Shadwell area of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England. In May 2015, the name of the schools formally changed from "the Collegiate" to its current nomenclature of Bishop Challoner Catholic Federation of Schools.
  The school is a voluntary aided federation of a boys' school, a girls' school and a co-educational sixth form. The school is administered by Tower Hamlets London Borough Council and the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster. In 2016, around 50% of the intake was Roman Catholic. Whilst the pupil profile at Bishop Challoner is diverse, Bangladeshi children are very significantly under-represented in comparison to Tower Hamlets as a whole and the schools receive few applications from Bangladeshi parents. Nevertheless, in 1992, local parents unsuccessfully challenged the admission policy to Bishop Challoner RC Girls' School in the House of Lords. Tower Hamlets Borough’s high levels of child poverty are evident in the high proportion of children entitled to free school meals which in 2011 stood at 57%.
context_section_description: The school is named after Bishop Richard Challoner (born 29 September 1691, Lewes, Sussex, - died 12 January 1781, London), a leading figure of English Catholicism during the greater part of the 18th century.
  On 22 January 2010, at the official opening of the Federation, Bishop Stack, Chairman of the Diocese of Westminster’s Education Commission spoke "these profound words to those gathered on the site of steel, zinc and walls of glass":
  "In 1946 the remains of Bishop Richard Challoner were transferred from their burial place in Milton, Berkshire, to a new tomb in Westminster Cathedral. It was fitting that his body should be brought back to Central London where he had been a bishop for 40 years…"
caption: Richard Challoner, engraving, British  Museum
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