Immaculate Conception College (ICC), Benin, has witnessed three phases in the management history of the College. The first phase of management was when the Catholic Mission first established the College. The second phase corresponds with the period when Government seized and took over all private and mission schools, and turned them into public schools. The third phase is the return by the Government of Edo State of ICC to the Catholic Mission the original owner of the College. FIRST PHASE: The Catholic Bishop of Benin City, His Lordship, Bishop Patrick Joseph Kelly established ICC in 1944 with Rev. Andrew O’Rouke SMA as the First Principal of the College. The College started with only 30 students (at the present site of St. Paul Minor Seminary) until 1954 when it was approved as a Secondary School.