Wesley College, University of Sydney
| Wesley College | ||||||||||
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| University of Sydney | ||||||||||
| Location | Western Avenue, University of Sydney NSW, 2006 | |||||||||
| Coordinates | 33°53′21″S 151°11′09″E / 33.8892453°S 151.1858654°E | |||||||||
| Full name | Wesley College | |||||||||
| Motto | Ministrate in Fide Vestra Virtutem (Latin) | |||||||||
| Motto in English | Serve Virtue in Your Faith | |||||||||
| Established | 1917 | |||||||||
| Named for | John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church | |||||||||
| Sister college | Queen's College, University of Melbourne | |||||||||
| Master | Lisa J Sutherland | |||||||||
| Residents | 265 | |||||||||
| Website | Website | |||||||||
Wesley College is a co-residential college of 265 students within the University of Sydney. The college occupies a site on the main campus of the University of Sydney and was built on a sub-grant of Crown land. Wesley is one of six on-campus colleges at the University of Sydney which provide accommodation. In 1923 the college averaged 45 students. Originally the college accommodated only men but when women were admitted in 1969 Wesley became the first of the colleges within the University of Sydney to become co-educational. Its current head is Lisa Sutherland, who has held the position since 2010.
The college chapel owned a Latin version of the Bible which dated to 1479, and may be the oldest bible in Australia, but it has since gone missing.