Raimondi College

Raimondi College is an English-Chinese college founded in 1958 by the Roman Catholic Diocese in Hong Kong. The school building is located at in Mid-Levels West, Central, near the Hong Kong Caritas headquarters and the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception. History Founding Raimondi College takes its name from a PIME missionary, Bishop Gao Leimen. Gao was born in 1827. From 1874 to 1894, he went to Hong Kong to preach from Milan, Italy, and became the first apostolic vicar of Hong Kong. In 1955, Hong Kong Wah Yan College moved to its current Queen's Road East campus in Wanchai. In 1958, when the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions celebrated the 100th anniversary of its service in Hong Kong, Raimondi College was built by the then Bishop Lorenzo Bianchi, inviting the visiting Prefect of the Holy See's Communication Department Cardinal Ya Jing’an, who presided over the ordination of the school.