SSND

Religion abbreviation · Religious Title

SSND stands for School Sisters of Notre Dame, a religious title abbreviation.

Teaching congregation of Catholic women founded in Bavaria in 1833 by Blessed Theresa of Jesus Gerhardinger to educate girls. The sisters came to the US in 1847 and taught in thousands of parish schools.

Example: Notre Dame of Maryland University was founded by the SSND in 1895.

Usage notes

Not to be confused with the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur (SNDdeN) or other congregations with similar names. Famous members included the nuns of the long-running Nun Study on aging and Alzheimer's disease. Their US communities have consolidated into a single North American province.

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