Kolbe Cathedral High School is a private

Private school

Private schools, also known as independent schools or nonstate schools, are not administered by local, state or national governments; thus, they retain the right to select their students and are funded in whole or in part by charging their students' tuition, rather than relying on mandatory...

, Roman Catholic high school

High school

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 in Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport, Connecticut

Bridgeport is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Connecticut. Located in Fairfield County, the city had an estimated population of 144,229 at the 2010 United States Census and is the core of the Greater Bridgeport area...

. It is located in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport

Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Bridgeport is located in the south western part of the state of Connecticut, and its boundaries are the same as that of Fairfield County, Connecticut. There are 87 parishes in the diocese. Its cathedral is St. Augustine in Bridgeport.The current bishop is The Most...

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Background

Kolbe Boys High School and Cathedral Girls High School opened in the 1960s. Kolbe (Opened 1963) was staffed by the Franciscans and Cathedral (Opened 1964) by the Daughters of the Holy Spirit

Daughters of the Holy Spirit

The Daughters of the Holy Spirit or White Sisters are a Roman Catholic religious order of women.The congregation was founded in Brittany on December 8, 1706 by Marie Balavenne and Renée Burel committed themselves to live together and to devote themselves to the service of the poor, the sick and...

. In June 1976 Kolbe and Cathedral merged into a co-educational secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

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In October 2005, Kolbe was briefly in the media spotlight when the Boston Globe, Hartford Courant, and other newspapers reported on the removal of teacher Stephen Kobasa

Stephen V. Kobasa

Stephen Vincent Kobasa is a Connecticut teacher, journalist, and Christian political activist. He focuses his work “in Colombia solidarity, towards abolition of the death penalty and in opposition to nuclear weapons.” He was “instrumental in reconstituting the state’s death penalty abolition...

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