page_title: Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney
section_title: Foundation
hierarchical_section_title: Sancta Sophia College, University of Sydney / History / Foundation
caption_attribution_description: English: Sancta Sophia College, Sydney University, in the 1920s.
context_page_description: Sancta Sophia College is a residential college for undergraduate women and postgraduate men and women at the University of Sydney. The college has a Catholic foundation but admits students of any religion. Fiona Hastings has been the Principal of the College since 2018.
context_section_description: In 1923, the Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Michael Kelly, and the Bishops of New South Wales issued a letter in support of university education for the Catholic community and announced the construction of a Catholic hall of residence for women. This was a result of social and educational changes which facilitated higher education for women. Sancta Sophia College was founded in 1925 as a hall of residence for Catholic women. The first cohort of 23 women moved into the college on 15 March, 1926. In 1929, an Act of Parliament raised the hall to the status of a College within the University of Sydney.
caption: Sancta Sophia shortly after its opening in the late 1920s.
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