St. John's University is a private, Roman Catholic, coeducational university located in New York City, United States. Founded by the Vincentian Fathers in 1870, the school was originally located in the borough of Brooklyn in the neighborhood of Bedford-Stuyvesant. Beginning in the 1950s, the school was relocated to its current location in the borough of Queens. St. John's also has campuses in Staten Island (Notre Dame College), Manhattan, Rome, Italy. and a graduate center in Oakdale, New York. A campus in Paris, France opened in the Spring of 2009.