High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Xavier Centre of Historical Research is a Jesuit-run history research centre located in Alto Porvorim, Goa in India. It was founded in the late 1970s and its first director was Teotonio R. de Souza (1979-1994). Charles Borges, who had served as Administrator and Associate Director, took over the direction of XCHR till the year 2000, when he left for the Maryland College, Baltimore, as its Faculty Staff. The current director is Jesuit father Delio Mendonca. It is one of the prominent institutions in Asia focussing on Indo-Portuguese issues, and besides organising seminars and talks, it has also published a number of books related to the Portuguese in India and Asia, Goa, the Jesuits and other historical themes. It has set up an art gallery.