Msgr Filipe Neri de Mendonça

The Government of India conferred the prestigious National Award for Excellence in Education on Msgr. Mendonça for his valuable contribution on the field of education in Goa. He was the first Goan to get National Award in the liberated Goa. He passed away in 1966.

Subsequently, the school was handed over to Diocesan Society of Education and presently the school is administered by this Society under the care of Archbishop Rev. Filipe Neri Ferrao.

The idea of a Catholic college was actually conceived by the veteran educationalist Msgr. Filipe Mendonça, the then principal of St. Joseph High School, Arpora. He felt that with dawn of liberation a new climate was created in Goa favorable to the development of university education. His idea was welcomed by the archbishop patriarch, D. Jose Viera Alvernaz.