University is a private Catholic university in Louisville, Kentucky. It is affiliated with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth.
== History ==
Spalding University traces its origins to "Nazareth Academy", one of the oldest educational institution west of the Alleghenies. Nazareth Academy was founded in 1814 by the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth and was located in Nelson County near Bardstown, Kentucky. Spalding was named after Mother Catherine Spalding, foundress of the Sisters.
In 1829 the legislature of the Commonwealth of Kentucky granted the school a charter allowing the school to confer degrees. In 1920, the Sisters opened "Nazareth College" in Louisville, Kentucky's first, four-year, Catholic college for women. The former campus renamed as the "Nazareth Junior College" at the same time but was eventually folded into the main campus in Louisville in 1940. The Louisville and Nazareth campuses merged. In 1961, Nazareth College split into two separate schools, "Nazareth College at Nazareth" and "Catherine Spalding …
