1921-1946 Leadership

IMCS Leadership

ICMICA Leadership

Key Dates

Dates President Country and historic note Vice Presidents   Secretary General Country and historic note  

1920

             
1921-1922 Dr. Max Gressly    Three vice presidents: Martin Sanchez y Julia (Spain) ; Gerard Brom (Netherlands); Kurt de Wattenwyl (Switzerland-  President of Renaissance society) (secretaries – Jean Tschuor, Guillaume de Weck)   Abbé Jean Tschuor    
1923-1924 Abbé Joseph Gremaud             

1925

Dr. Nello Palmieri        Abbé Joseph Gremaud     

1926

Dr. Feber             

1927

Stanislas Orlikowski             

1928

Edward Bullough             

1929

Fernando Martín-Sánchez             

1930

Dr. Marthin Luible             

1931

Roger Pochon             

1932

Dr. Godard             

1933

Lambert Schaus             

1935

Dr. Ruckl             

1936

Dr. Theodore Vetter  Austria          

1937

Max Legendre  France Pierre Werner (Luxembourg)       Roger Millot

1938

Dr. Maks Wraber (Ljubljana)          

1939

Edward Kirchner  United States          
1939-1946 Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Spain     FIrst vice president: EJ; Second VP: Anton Tepez (Jugosalavia), Second VP: Roger Millot (France) thrid VP  Abbe Gremaud; Emergency committee: JRG, EK, JG, and Other: Francis Aylward, former president of the Catholic Association at the University of Liverpool   1946: Gérard Pelletier worked for Pax Romana coorination of World Student Relief work – from Quebc,  – offical in Trueadu government, including ambasaodr to UN (ncwc 46-2911)

Years

Presidents

Country and historic note    

Secretary Generals

Country and historic note

Ecclesiastical Chaplain

Country and historic note

Others / Vice Presidents

Country and historic note
1946 – 1947 André Florinetti Switzerland   1946-1948 Abbé Joseph Schneuwly (1946 – 1948) Switzerland   Switzerland    
1947 – 1948 José Gonzáez Torres Mexico – later Presidente del Partido Acción Nacional

1959 – 1962 and Candidato Presidencial del Partido Acción Nacional

1964 (+ in 1998)

  1948 – 1951 Bernard de Hoog (1948 – 1951) Netherlands Abbé Joseph Gremaud (1947 – 1950)      
1948 – 1950 Kees Pompe Netherlands   1951 – 1955 Bernard Ducret (1951-1955) Switzerland “the last survivor of those who had collaborated … before 1946..”     Mr Herman Neusch (USA) Mr. Rene Tardy (France)  
1950-1951 Claude Mac-Donald Canada – Became doctor. (+ 2002)                
1951-1952 Rosaire Beaulé Quebec-Canada         Msgr. Emilio Guano (Check dates) Italy Vice President: Anne Hope (South Africa) – Latin American assistant set up in Fribroug with Nemesio Canela, Emilio Fracchia (Paraguay, Jamie Cordova (Peru), Raul Gonzalez Simon (Cuba) and Carlos Castillo (Uruguay)  
1952-1954 Kaspar Kallan Denmark (d. 2003)             Abbe Pierre Elcheroth, Social Secretariat  
1954-1956 Joseph Kuriacose India   1955 – 1958 Thom G. J. Kerstiens (1955-1958) Netherlands Fr. Dominique Louis, OP (1955 –      
1956-1958 Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo Portugal             African students in late 1950s who could take roles in international secretariat: Nicholas Muraguri, from Kenya; Robert Odinkemelu, from Nigeria; Edward Ulzen, from Ghana; Robert Ekinu, from Uganda; Edwin Khabele, from Basutoland  
1958-1960 Bryan Wood Great Britain     Jamie Córdova (1958-1963) Peru        
1960-1967 Peter Vygantas Lithuania/USA     P.T. Kuriakose (1964 – 1967) India Fr. William Ferree, SM (need dates)      
1967-1971 P.T. Kuriakose India     Jürgen Nikolai Germany        
1971-1975 Jürgen Nikolai Germany     Carlos Alborno Paraguay Fr. Bonaventura Pelegri Spain    
1975-1978 Gilberto Valdez Herrera Peru     Antonio Matos-Ferreira Portugal Fr. Bonaventura Pelegri Spain Maria Irace (Italy) Leonard Foo (Malaysia)  
1978-1982 Anthony Osei-Tutu Ghana     Joseph “Pipo” Carbonell Catalonia Fr. Pablo Dabezies Uruguay Zosimo Lee (Philippians) ; Linda Wirth (Australia)  
1982-

1986

Iris Almeida India     Bernardo Barranco Mexico Fr. François Lapierre Quebec-Canada Claude Akpokavie (Ghana); Laurier Caron (Quebec-Canada)  
1986- 1990 Carles Torner Catalonia-Spain     Etienne Bisimwa Benin Fr. François Lapierre Quebec-Canada Lawrencia Kwark (Korea); Olga Licia Ramirez (Columbia)  
1991-1995 Javier Martos Spain     Helen Ting Malaysia Fr. Nicolas Desboeufs Switzerland    
1995-1999 Roland Ranaivoarison Madagascar     Walter Prysthon Brazil        
1999-2003 Antonio Budi Tjahjono Indonesia     Natalia Mendez Catalonia-Spain Fr. Mike Deeb, OP South Africa    
2003- 2007 Kevin Ahern USA     Joesph Zobel Behalal Cameroon Fr. Mike Deeb, OP South Africa    
2007-2011 Mehul Dabhi

India

India     Christopher Derige Malano USA Fr. Christopher McCoy United Kingdom    
2011-2015 Charles Ochero Sudan     Camila Jara Chile Fr. Henry Jerome, SJ Inida    
2015 – 2019 Edouard Karoue Togo     Evelina Manola Greece Fratern Masawe SJ, Tanzinina    
2019 – Ravi Warnakulasooriya Sri Lanka     Michael Mmadubueze Nigeria Fr. JoJo Fung, SJ Malaysia    
                 
Years Presidents Country and historic note     Secretary Generals Country and historic note Ecclesiastical Chaplain Others / Vice Presidents
1946-1947 Hubert Aepli Switzerland   1946 – 1958 Ramon Sugranyes De Franch Spain    
1947-1952 Roger Millot France           Vittorino Veronese (2nd term)
1952-1955 Sir Hugh Taylor UK / USA – Dean of Graduate School of Princeton and member of Pont. Academy of Sciences         Jean de la Croix Kaelin, OP (1951 – Vittorino Veronese (2nd term)
1955-1958 Willem P.J. Pompe Netherlands (father of Kees Pomp)           Bichara Tannaj (Beirut); ICMICA Secretariat Thaddée Szmitkowski (195 ? – 1957) – later joins Director of ICO Center in Geneva
1958-1965 Ramon Sugranyes de Franch Spain   1958 – 1962 Thoma G. J. Kerstiens Netherlands   Maria Luisa Paronetto Valier (Italy)
1965-1966 Kevin McDonnell Great Britain   1962 – 1967 George Strasser Netherlands    
1966-1971 Joaquín Ruiz-Giménez Spain   1967 – 1971 Ludwig Dembinski Poland    
1971 – 1975 Claude Picard France   1971 – 1975 José Abreu-Vale Brazil    
1975- Félix Martí Ambel Spain   1975 – 1979 Eric Sottas Switzerland    
                 
                 
                 
1984-1988       1979 – 1987 R. Joseph Rajkumar India    
1988 – 1992       1987 – 1992 Victor Karunan India    
1992-1996       1992 – 1996 Mauricio Molina Molina      
1996-2000       1996-2004 Anselmo Lee      
2000-2004       2004-2008 Paul Ortega      
2004-2008       2008-2012 Laurence Kwark      
2008-2012       2012  –        
2012 – 2016                
2016 – 2021 Kevin Ahern USA            
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
                 
Date Location # Event Theme Entity Notes   Popes Events
1887     Initiative   IUCS Baron Georges de Montenach (of the Société des Etudiants Suisses) envisions the creation of an international union. Contact with Albert du Mun of l’Association Catholique de la Jeunesse Française)   1878 – 1903: Pope Leo XIII  
1888

8/23

Fribourg 1 General Assembly of the International Union of Catholic Students   IUCS Approval from Leo XIII. – Discussions led by Cardinal Mermillod      
1891 Rome 2 General Assembly of the International Union of Catholic Students with Pilgrimage to Rome to the Tomb of St. Louis de Gonzague IUCS 2nd Assembly ended with the “Pantheon Incident” and political complications over the Roman question. 7,000 students join and 1,500 attend Assembly. Fribourg set as headquarters and de Montenach chosen as president.      
1900

September

Paris   International Congress of Catholic Students “Congrès international des ètudiants catholiques”

Under the leadership of Marc Sangnier and with the support of M. de Montenach.

      1903 – 1914 Pope Pius X 1914 – 1918 WWI
1917/1920       Foundation of the International Catholic Study Union “forerunner to ICMICA” founded in Paris with the leadership of Montenach ICSU     1914 – 1922: Pope Benedict XV 1919 – 1946: League of Nations
1920 Fribourg     1920 Assembly of Swiss Students’ Society responded to the ideas of Fr. Tschour to deepen contacts with Dr. Gerard Brom, General Secretary of the Netherlands Catholic Association of Students. Swiss Students (under Max Gressly) sought approval from Holy See.   Organizing committee

Max Gressly, presiding

Three vice presidents:

Martin Sanchez y Julia (Spain)

Gerard Brom (Netherlands)

Kurt de Wattenwyl (Switzerland- President of Renaissance society)

(secretaries – Jean Tschuor, Guillaume de Weck)

     
1921 Fribourg     1st World Congress and Foundation

Foundation of the L’Union internationale des Etudiants catholiques

  First meeting took place on July 19 at the Fribourg House of Parliament 20 Countries Represented

Max Gresly elected president of the council of delegates and Mr. Spataro (Italy) as vice president

Permanent committee had Bishop of as honorary president

members +Gressly, +K. de Wattenwyl, +Miss Marcelle Despond (Switzerland), Martin Sanchez y Julia (Spain), Gerard Brom (netherlands), Fr. J. Tschuor as Secretary General. Secretariat established in Fribourg –

See NCWC 6/12/39. Memory of Bishop Muench of foundation. Other participants included Paul Regan, MS, later become provincial of LaSalette Fathers, James Staunton, who would become bishop of Ferns, Ireland, and John Kirsch, (later director of Papal Instituie of Christian Archeology) – Eucharist becomes “more than a symbol of peace–it became a surety of preace and bond of fraternal chairty”  = Embrace between Dr Carl Sonnenschein of Berlin and the leader of the French Delegation – “Christian kiss of peace” in the final session.    
        Early effrots   Takes charge of the Mensa Academica in Vienna – Until 1923, three wagon loads of food were sent each year to vienna and gifts in kind were sent to needed students in Germany Poland and Russia (had to run Lottery) (Pochon)      
1921

August

Ravenna     Pax Romana Study Days   Frassatti Present      
1922

January

      Launch of two publications

Folia periodica (Pax Romana)

Acta secretariatus

         
1922

(Before Easter)

Rotterdam     Pax Romana Study Days          
1922

8/7 – 8/9

Fribourg     2nd World Congress   (included on Japanese)

Decided to start a work of student hostels Auxilium Studiosorum (included the Mensa Academica of Vienna and the publication of a bulletin). Montini led a conference on foreign missions

  1922 – 1939 Pope Pius XI  
1922

August

Vienna     Pax Romana Week          
1922

September

Oxford     Pax Romana Week          
1923

9/18 – 9/20

Salzburg, Austria     3rd World Congress   Financial crisis      
1924 Budapest,     4th World Congress          
1925

9/5 – 9/8

Bologna,     5th World Congress

Renaming – revision of statutes

“Confederatio Studentium Universi Terrarum Orbis Catholica”

  Presided over by Mgr. Seipel, chancellor of Austria      
1925       Pax Romana asked to cooperate with the Commission de cooperation intellectuelle.(The Committee on Intellectual Cooperation) of the League of Nations. 134          
1926

9/2 – 9/4

Amsterdam     6th World Congress          
1927

8/10 – 8/20

Warsaw,     7th World Congress

Followed by visit to Krakow and “study journey across high Silesia, including Częstochowa.

         
1928

8/14 – 8/17

Cambridge,     8th World Congress: “Broken Bridges”

Examination, from the triple point of view, historical, philosophical and ethical of the causes of the divorce between the spirit of the world today and that of Catholicism

  Fr. Fulton Sheen (USA)      
1929

9/4 – 9/8

Seville,     9th World Congress “Doctrinal Value of Catholicism from the Cultural Point of View”

Included study trips to several cities in Spain

Approval of Vade mecum (for students going aboard – including identity card)

  (then Fr.) Francois Charriere was present      
1930       Rudi Salat joined secretariat          
1930

8/27 – 9/3

Munich,     10th World Congress: Catholicism in Germany   Commission for women established      
1931

7/20 – 7/26

Fribourg     11th World Congress “The University and the Catholic Student”   M. de Halecki

200+ delegates

Commission (led by J. Python) to promote Latin as an international language

     
1931 USA     Visit of Gremaud, Rossel, Salat and O’Neill to the US for 10th Congress of University ent’aide – connections to Canada – in US, visited to Federation of Catholic COllege Clubs, National Catholic ALumni Federation and the Sodality movement. They created a liaison committee to consider affiliation.          
1931

12/12 – 12/22

Mexico     Foundation of the Ibero-American Confederation of Catholic Students (CIDEC) (only Uruguay was a member of Pax Romana) CIDEC        
1932 Lille     Creation of Secretariat for Press – First international press congress of Catholic University Youth          
1932

30 July – 3 August

Fribourg     8th International University Congress in Favor of the Missions          
1932 Luxembourg     Pax Romana Days          
1932

8/8 – 8/14

Bordeaux     12th World Congress “International and Social Order”   250+ delegates

Formation of secretariat for medical students

Nello Palmieri charged with representing Pax Romana ar the Institute of Intellectual Cooperation

     
1933

8/5 – 8/11

Luxembourg     13th World Congress “Social Work of the University Student”   300+ delegates      
1933       Creation of the International Secretariat for Catholic University Press (SPUC)          
1933

12/14 – 12/31

Rome     CIDEC Congress (partnership with Pax Romana)          
1934

5 April

Rome     Catholic Students’ Pilgrimage to Rome

“Catholic Action in the University” – Eduardo Nicanor Frei Montalva present as Sec Gen of CIDEC

  900 Students April 5th Audience with the Pope      
1935

8/31 – 9/8

Prague and Bratislava     14th World Congress

“New Man in a New Age”

         
1935       Launch of the secretariat for lawyers and medical students          
1936 July 20 – Aug 20 Monêtier (France)   Camp            
1936

7/28 – 8/5

Salzburg and Vienna     15th World Congress

“The mission of the Catholic students in contemporary culture”

         
1937

7/28 – 8/3

Paris     16th World Congress “Unemployment among University Graduates”   At the same time as the World Exhibition of the Catholic Press,

And request made to Vatican to consider beatification of Frassati – 700 students from 27 nations Speakers included Mark Dubois, OP (Paris), Wilhelm Wincklet (Vienna) Se. Leopold Robert, Rev Hublou (Louvain) and Rudi Salat  – Economist Lucien Romier, director of Figaro, Bishop Besson, Mass at Montmartre in Oriential Rite by Fr. Erdinoch, Ukraine), bishop Roger Beaussart (Aux of paris and former chaplain of FFEC), Sunday (visit to tomb)

NCWC 8/30/37    
1938

4/30 – 5/1

Vaduz, Liechtenstein     Pax Romana Interfederal Assembly          
1938

8/22 – 8/28

Bled

Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

    17th World Congress “The Catholic Student in Face of the Problem of Communism”

Austrian and German Students Absent

Pax Romana Days before in Rogaska Slatina,

First non-European elected (EK)

  Dr. Miha Krek

Cyril H. Lott

Fr. Joseph Cardijn

Robert Regout, SJ

Pierre-Henri Simon

     
1938 Septmeber Rome     Visit of Ed Kirchner and Rudi Salat – morning after a Hitler speech – Cardinal Pacelli could not meet them but instead had them drive with him to see pope at Castlegondolfo.     NCWC 3/20/39  39-0929    
1939-1958       POPE PIUS XII          
1939

4/12 -4/17

Sarnen     Interfederal Assembly

Study Days had as aim”The Organization of a Federation of Catholic Students”

Plans already made to move office to US in case of war,

         
1939

April

Rome     Visit of Ed Kirchner and Rudi Salat to Pope Pius XII –          
1939

5/20 – 5/28

Lima     Congress of CIDEC

Present were Ed. Kirchner, –

  (John O’Hara was at Lima)      
1939

8/27 – 9/1

Washington, DC and New York, USA     18th World Congress “The Role of the University in Catholic Action”

September 1,

On September 12, embarked on the Roma

(took SS De Grasse(from Le Havre, France) to NY and SS Roma back)

Year: 1939; Arrival: New York, New York, USA; Microfilm Serial: T715, 1897-1957; Line: 12; Page Number: 4

         
1939-1945       WORLD WAR II          
1941 July 31 – 28 CIDEC Assembly followed by Pax Romana  29 – August 2 Bogotá     First Inter-American Assembly of Pax Romana created first regional secretariat in Bogota 1941, linked with CIDEC (ended in 1943)

Present were Ed Kirchner, Marcos McGrath (later Archbishop in Panama), Fr. William Ferree, SM – “Human Person and Catholicism”   –  On way, students in Lima had Mass with nuncio, Fernando Cento

  Address of Eduardo Santos, President of Colombia  – Pierre Trudeau,      
        Regional Secretariat set up in Bogota          
4/1/1944 April 1 Dob,     Anton Tepez (VP) shot by Yougoslav terrorists near his home (NCSW 44-0916)     http://nszaveza.github.io/articles/20-anton-tepez-predsednik-slovenske-dijaske-zveze-19081943/    
1944

March

Santiago     Joint Study Week of Pax Romana with CIDEC – Focus on reconstruction, of world after the war

New regional secretariat established in March 1944, directed by Dr. Domingo Santa Maria – Luis Calderón Vega President of CIDEC – Later Mexican polticial figure  – critiques equlivence between CST and capitalism (44-1242)

         
September 1944 Santiago     Regional Secretariat starts publishing “Noticias Universitarias Catolicas”          
                   
1939-1946       War-Time Secretariat, Washington, DC

R. Salat becomes from April 1941 an “Itinerant Ambassador” of Pax Romana in Latin America

         
1940-1949       Participation in the International Student Service with WSCF 🡪 European Student Relief Fund 🡪 World Student Relief          
1943       Agreement between WSCF and Pax Romana to establish the European Student Relief Fund

Entr’aide –

Fribourg secretariat took up book service by Swiss Catholic Mission. 15,000 religious books were published in English and the same number in Italian (Pochon) by the end of June 1946, 600,000 books had been sent tp prinsionrs (Vatican paid 43,459 Swiss Frs and NCWC 234,521 Swiss Frs.)

European fund for aid to students became in August 1943 World Fund for aid to students was run by a committee with Fr. Gremaud as Vice-President (PaxRomana participation was thanks to NCWC) Work carried out until 1949 –

         
1945       CREATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS          
1945 Montbarry, Switzerland     First international meeting in Europe after the war with delegates from Czechoslovakia, France, Great Britain, the Netherland, Spain, and Switzerland.          
1945 London     Regional meeting of Pax Romana with delegates from twenty-one nations. Linked to celebration of the centenary of Cardinal Newman’s reception into church – Agenda of conference “reconstructing the post-war world on Christian principles (NCWC 9/3/45)          
1946

6/22 – 6/?

Salamanca, Spain     19th World Congress “The Catholic Student in face of Actual Problems of the World”   Ideas of creating a graduate group (Universitas)

70 delegates from 40 countries

     
                   
1946

3/10 -3/19

Lima, Peru     Second Inter-American Pax Romana Assembly (and Third congress of CIDEC) “The Responsibility of the Catholic University Movement in the Face of Problems Posed by the University, the Nation, the Continent, and the World”

Present were Joaquin Ruiz Gimenez, Edward Kirchner, Roger Millot Rudi Salat and Domingo Santa Maria   15 -coutires address by Cardinal Pizzardo – welcomed by president of  Peru President Bustamante

  Creation of a regional secretariat of Pax Romana      
1946

8/27 – 9/5

Fribourg     20th World Congress “The Christian Duty of the University Student”

25th Anniversary of Pax Romana

Or Theme “Chrsitain Engagement in the University”

chaplain meeting in study days at Estavayer-Ie-Lac on “The Future of Pax Romana.”

(Placed Bronze commemorative plaque at entrance hall of university)   600 Delegates from 41 countiries – Opening Mass by Bishiop Muench

  700+ Participants

Foundation of YCS

Including six of the founding members: Msgr. Beaupin, Fr. J. Gremaud, Max Gressly, Bishop Aloysius Muench, Fr. J. Tschuor, Guillaume de Weck.

39 Countries

21 New applications, including UNEC

66 Federations in 45 Countries

Decision to create MIIC with a meeting in Easter in 1947

Provisional commission established to draft new statues haded by Hubert Aepli, Chancellor of Fribourg University –

17 new federations accepted

formal resignations of Rudi Salat and Fr. Gremaud

Ramon Sugranyes de Franch invited by Aepli to help with statutes.

     
                   
1947 Anzio, Italy     IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1947 Rome     ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1947

April

Low Sunday

Rome     Formal reorganization and recognition of Pax Romana into IMCS and ICMICA

New statutes approved for both movements.

April 12

United together at Apostolic CHancellery to approve common statutes which joined two in a conference with the theme “Christianity and the Intellectual” – approved by Secretary of State

and nominated Bishop Charriere bishop of Lausanne as general ecclesaitical advisor. Pizzardo was nominated Carindal Protector

.

  Foundation of ICMICA –  liked with beaitification of Contardo Ferrini, Italian professor      
1947 September Rothmanshohe

Germany (at Jesuit retreat house)

    Post War Meeting – by Rudi Salat in Germany

“it showed how Pax Romana encouraged spiritual and cultural exchanges between Catholics of different countries and it also marked a new success in the spirt of reconicaltion embodied in Pax Romana.” (Sugranyes 1961)

         
1948       DRAFTING OF THE UDHR          
1948 * OR 1947

4/3 – 4/10

SPA, Belgium   IMCS Interfederal Assembly: IMCS Interfederal Assembly “Social Responsibilities of the Student”

“missionary days in Louvain”

  NNCF Admitted      
1948 Ware, UK

St. Edmund’s College

  ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly

Study on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights

  Vittorino Veronese (VP) Fr. Edward Stanford, OSA      
1949 Luxembourg   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly

Christian Universality

         
1948       PAX ROMANA PRESIDENT OF THE CICO – Roger Millot          
1948       GRANTED ECOSOC Status          
1949 Mexico City   IMCS Interfederal Assembly: IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1949 Mariastein, Switzerland   IMCS Study Meeting Catholic Action in the University          
1950 Breda, Netherlands   IMCS Interfederal Assembly: IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1950 Apeldoorn, Netherlands   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1950

8/19 – 8/27

Amsterdam 21st World Congress “The co-operation of the intellectual in the work of redemption”

Message of Pius XII

“The Catholic Intellectual and the World Order”

”The Meaning of Liberty and the University of Today?”

  Vittorino Veronese

Joseph Piller

Richard Pattee

E. Reut-Nicolussi

Joaques Leclercq

P. Hoenen, SJ

Oscar Helecki

Most Rev Leon ommel

Douglas Hyde

Louis Raeymaeker

Roger Millot

Josef Kalin

Francis Sheed

Louis Joesph Lebret, OP

     
1950

8/29 – 8/31

Rome   Holy Year Pilgrimage and address by Pius XII Holy Year Pilgrimage of Students to Rome

5,000 graduates and undergraduates

         
1950 Rome 1st international congress of Catholic Pharmacists            
1950

September 1 – 5

Rome 1st international congress of Catholic Artists First international congress of Catholic Artists

“Unione Cattolica Artisti Italiani”

         
1951 Rheims, France     30th Anniversary of Pax Romana

Join Assemblies

  Join IMCS and ICMCIA meetings

Msgr Roncalli (Apostolic Nuncio) later Pope John XXIII participated

     
1951 Rheims, France   IMCS Interfederal Assembly            
1951 Rheims, France   ICMICA Plenary Assembly            
1951 Limburg and Lahn, Germany     ICMICA study session on the Application of the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man          
1951 Fatima   IMCS Study Meeting the “Intellectual Apostolate “   Participation of GG? University for Christ      
1951 Rome     First World Congress of the Lay Apostolate          
        Controversy over election of Hugh Taylor (CCICA-USA) as ICMICA president with objection from local bishop in Trenton.          
1952

8/26 -9/1

Montreal and Quebec, 22nd World Congress 22nd World Congress “The Mission of the University”

Assemblies held before in Toronto

         
1952 Toronto   IMCS Interfederal Assembly            
1952 Toronto   ICMICA Plenary Assembly            
1952 Salzburg   ICMICA Study Meeting the Rights of Parents in the School   Results published in Germanand Italian      
1953 Venice   ICMICA Study Meeting the Moral and Social Aspects of the Problem of Population          
1953

Spring

Louvain   ICMICA Study Meeting The Human Problems Arising from Nuclear Energy          
1953 Bossey, Switzerland     Joint IMCS-WSCF Ecumenical Meeting (15 from IMCS and 15 from WSCF)          
1953

7/28 – 8/3

Krabbelsholm,

Denmark

  IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly   Argreed to org. Madras seminar      
1953 Bonn   ICMICA Plenary Assembly     Munch present      
1954

8/15 – 8/22

Flüeli, Switzerland   IMCS Interfederal Assembly “The Christian Student and the Practice of International Understanding”          
1954 Luxembourg   Joint IMCS and ICMICA Study Seminar Joint Study Session on the Political Responsibility of the Christian          
1954 Lisbon   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1954/1955

12/10 – 1/2

Madras, India 1st Asian Students Seminar: “The Catholic Student and the Transformations Taking Place in Asian Universities”          
1955 Louvain   ICMICA Study meeting “The Human Problems Arising from Nuclear Energy”          
1955 Bossey     WSCF – IMCS Study Session on “The University, Culture, and the Human Community” (hosted by WSCF)          
1955 Leucester, England   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1955

3/18 – 3/31

Nottingham, England 23rd World Congress “From University to Life: Problems of the Young Graduate”          
1955 Nottingham   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1956 Vienna, Austria   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1956 Geneva     IMCS Study Session at the United Nations in Geneva          
1956 Beirut   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly in Lebanon and Pilgrimage to the Holy Land   Text published in Lebanon title Culture and Cultures      
1956 Singapore     IMCS Regional Program          
1957

August

San Salvador, El Salvador   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1957

12/22 – 12/31

1/1 – 1/8 1958 (community development seminar)

Accra 1st IMCS All-African Seminar “Africa… Chirstian Continent?   Book published      
1957 Rome   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly

Celebration of ICMICA Anniversary Assembly

“Pensée chétienne et la communauté mondiale” published by Recherches et Débats France

  Address by Pius XII      
1957 Rome     World Congress of the Lay Apostolate          
1958-1963       JOHN XXIII          
1958 Eichstätt, Germany   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1958 Fribourg   IMCS European Secretariat IMCS European Secretariat          
1958 Vienna   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1958

8/31 – 9/6

Vienna 24th World Congress “The meaning of freedom and the University Today”   Cardinal Koenig, Cardinal Tisserant, Dr, Luther Evens (UNESCO DG)

1,000+ participants – Published under Essais et Documents of the Research Center for Catholic Teaching in France

     
1958 Hong Kong   IMCS Asian Regional Seminar IMCS Asian Regional Seminar          
1958 Buenos Aires   IMCS Latin American Regional Seminar “Student Catholic Action and Social Formation”          
1959 Geneva   IMCS European seminar “European Unity”          
1959 Louvain 13th Plenary Assembly “The Life of Faith in a Technio-Scientific World”   Published in “«Faith and Technical Mentality» (Collection «Credo» Maison Plon in Paris).      
1959 / 1960

12/26 – 1/7

Manila   IMCS Interfederal Assembly the Social Responsibility of the Student          
1959

12/20 – 12/ 24

Manila   Asian Seminar Social Responsibility of the University Today          
1959

12/29 – 12/ 30

Manila   Asian Chaplain’s Meeting and Faculty Advisers’ Conference: Religious Formation of Catholic Students and Reception and Integration into Catholic Organizations of Students who have Graduated in Europe or America”          
  Manila   Meeting of Catholic Doctors            
1959/1960

12/27 – 1/9

Manila   First Asian Conference of Pax Romana Graduates            
1959/1960

1/2 – 1/8

Manila, Philippines   Joint UNESCO Conference “The present impact of the Great Religious on the lives of Men in the Orient and Occident.” This was attended by Hindus, Buddhists, Shintoists, Muslims, Jews, Orthodox, Protestants, and Catholics.   UNESCO Sponsored  -presided by M. Olivier Lacombe, Sorbonne      
                   
1960/1961

12/22 – 1/5

Leopoldville 2nd IMCS Pan-African Seminar “The African Student and His People”          
1960 San José   IMCS Latin American Formation Seminar IMCS Latin American Formation Seminar          
1960

8/10 – 8/22

Lisbon,   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1960

October 24

Rome     Meeting with John XXIII and Pax Romana Finance Committee          
1961 Fribourg   ICMICA Plenary Assembly: “The Responsibility of the Christian Intellectual in the World Today”   500+      
1961 Louvain     IMCS-WSCF Study Session “The Christian Responsibility in a Technological Era” (hosted by IMCS)          
1961

12/1 – 12/7

Bangkok 3rd IMCS Asian seminar IMCS Asian seminar          
1961 Bogotá 1st Latin American Seminar: “Political, Social, and Economic Problems of Latin America.”          
1962

July,

Montevideo, 25th World Congress The Responsibility of the University Towards Society          
1962 Montevideo   IMCS Interfederal Assembly IMCS Interfederal Assembly          
1962 Montevideo   ICMICA Plenary Assembly ICMICA Plenary Assembly          
1962 Geneva     IMCS and WCSF Consultation          
1962-1926       SECOND VATICAN COUNCIL          
1963-1978       PAUL VI          
1963 Galway   ICMICA Plenary Assembly: Nationalism and Supranationalism          
1963 Lima 2nd Latin American Seminar “Towards a Reform of Latin American Universities”          
1963       Establishment of Regional Secretariat First Regional Chaplain: Bishop Marcos McGrath, CSC for Latin America          
                   
1964

July 20 – 30

Washington   IMCS Interfederal Assembly: ”Christianly in an Age of Transition”

“need for a greater Christian commitment in the temporal order” (BP, 7)

  Robert F. Kennedy (USA Secretary General)

Tom Mboya (Kenya Minister of Justice)

Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, SCS (President of the University of Notre Dame)

Rafael Caldera (future president of Venezuela)

August Vanistendael (IFCTU and Auditor of Vatican II)

Bernard Cardinal Alfrink (Utretch)

     
1964 Bombay   ICMICA Plenary Assembly “The Human Problems of Economic Development”   Lebret      
1964 Taizé     IMCS and WSCF Consultation Meeting: “The Christian Community in the Academic World: the Meaning of Ecumenism and Its Implications in the University”          
1963 Leopoldville     African Regional Secretariat of IMCS with William T. Anderson, SM          
1963 Ibadan, Nigeria 3rd Pan-African Seminar Third Pan-African Seminar          
1964 Nairobi     Move of regional secretariat to Kenya          
                   
1966 Montevideo     Establishment of the joint secretariat between IMCS and IYCS in Latin America, suggested by CELAM          
1966

12/27 – 1/3 1967

Colombo, Ceylon   Pan Asian Catholic Students’ Seminar: Chirstian Students and the Asian Revolution   Book Published      
1967 Bochum, Germany   IMCS Interfederal Assembly: Beginning of the shift          
1967

Feb 12-17

Hong Kong     Asian Seminar: Contributions of Asian Chirstians to Nation Building   Book published from it.      
1970

7/25 – 8/5

Hong Kong   IMCS Pan Asian Conference: “Student movement as creative Agent of Social Change in Asia”          
1970       Socio-Political Responsibility of Christian Communities          
                   
1971

July

Fribourg Switzerland 27th IMCS Interfederal Assembly: Celebration of IMCS’ 50th year

“Liberation – How?”

  Shift to inductive method      
1971       Address of Pope Paul VI

1971 july 21 paul vi address – see McCormick Notes on Moral theology 381 and The Pope Speaks 16 (1971) 170.

         
1975

August,

Lima, Peru 28th IMCS Interfederal Assembly: “Christian Commitment in a World in Crisis”          
1978       JOHN PAUL I          
1978-2005       JOHN PAUL II          
1978 Valladolid, Spain 29th IMCS Interfederal Assembly: The Role of Students in the Transformation of Society.   Held with IYCS World Council

Adoption of CPP

     
1982     First ICMICA European Congress     Address of John Paul II?      
1982

August,

Montreal, 30th IMCS Interfederal Assembly:            
1983

September

London, UK   ICMICA Plenary Assembly     Launch of Women’s Project “The Participation of Professional women in Development and Societal Change:      
1984

27-29 April

Nijmegan   ICMICA European Assembly            
1984

9-15 June

Lisbon, Portugal 70th Session of ICMICA Council            
1984     South East Asian Consultation-cum-Country Exchange Programme            
1986 Yonkers, USA   ICMICA Council Meeting Council Meeting

Evaluation of the Extraordinary Synod of 1985 and contribution towards the Synod 1987

         
1986

21 May – June 1

Yonkers, USA   Seminar zeminar Social and Economic Rights: Pluralism Without Polarization          
1986

15 – 20 June

Montevideo (Uruguay) 1st Interamerican Meeting of Catholic Lawyers (Suzana Villaran, Eugeni Gay Montalvo, G. Gutierrez,.. )          
1986

14-27 September

South Korea   ICMICA East Asian Consultation Cum Exposure Programme (EACCEP) ICMICA East Asian Consultation Cum Exposure Programme (EACCEP)          
1986 Leuven 31st IMCS Interfederal Assembly: 31st IMCS Interfederal Assembly: Mission and Commitment with the Poor in a Society in Mutation          
1986 Dworp, Belgium 4th IMCS 4th Pan African Assembly          
1987

26-27 September

Rome   SIIAEC Conference : Communication Technologies, man and society: Assuming our Responsibilities            
1987

3-8 July

Yaounde, Cameroon   ICMICA Sub-regional Meeting for West and Central Africa: Towards a More Relevant Role for Chirstian Professionals and Intellectuals in Africa          
1987

20-27 September

Rome 25th ICMICA Plenary Assembly: The Challange of Tomorrow’s World for Today

Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo, Gustavo Gutierrez,

25 september meeting with John Paul II, Ramon Sugranyes de Franch,Ed Kirchner,

Audience with Pope John Paul II 25 September 1987

  220 delegates from 60 countries      
1988

6-8 May

Hamburg, Germany   ICMICA European Assembly            
1988

April 28 – May 4

Fribourg 75th ICMICA Council Meeting            
1988

23 – 25 June

Lima, Peru 2 Interamerican Meeting of Catholic Lawyers Theology, Democracy and Human Rights G. Gutierrez, J, R Himenez,          
1988

23-25 July

New York   Interamerican Conference on External Debt            
1988

June 28 – July 1

Nairobi, Kenya   ICMICA South-East African Regional Program: Towards a More Relevant Role for Catholic Intellectuals and Professionals in Africa          
1988

25 August – 3 September

Costa Rica   IMCS Chapains Meeting An Evangelization for a Culture of Life and Peace          
1988

10-11 September

Oxford, UK   SIIAEC Committee meeting on encyclical Sollicitudo Rei Socialis            
1988

October 13-28

Bangalore, India   ICMICA South Asian Consultation Cum Country Exchange Programme            
1990

9/23-9/30

Kumasi, Ghana 5th Pan African Assembly            
1991 Hong Kong 32nd IMCS Interfederal Assembly     Joint IFA with IYCS WC      
1994

9/10 – 9/28

Kampala, Uganda 6th Pan African Assembly            
1995 Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast 1st IMCS International Committee     Joint with IYCS IC      
1998

12/7 – 12/23

Harare. Zimbabwe 7th Pan African Assembly            
1999

August

Strasburg, France 2nd International Committee:     Joint with IYCS IC      
2002

12/7 – 12/20

Lomé, Togo 8th IMCS Pan-African Assembly     African Jesuit AIDS Network (AJAN) was publicly launched      
2003 Croatia   European Committee            
2003

August

Barcelona, Catalonia 3rd IMCS International Committee: 3rd International Committee: “Students Ready for Change In Global Solidarity for An Integral Education”   Joint with IYCS IC      
2004 Penang, Malysia 16 IMCS Pan Asia Pacific Assembly Towards an Alternative Globalization – Student with the Marginalized          
2004 Barcelona   JECI-MIEC European Committee            
2004 Quito   MIEC-JECI Latin American Committee            
2004

11/14 – 11/25

Paris   International Coordination Meeting (ICM) “Students Building Global Alternatives to Intolerance”          
2005

10/4 – 10/11

New York   IMCS UN Study Session “Student Action Against Poverty: MDGs + 5 Now What?”          
2005 Vienna   JECI-MIEC European Committee            
2006 Vienna   JECI-MIEC European Committee            
2006

10/1 – 10/14

Kabgayi Rwanda. 9th IMCS Pan-African Assembly Young Africans Engaged in the Fight Against Poverty          
2006 Geneva   International Coordination Meeting (ICM) “Student Rights and Responsibilities: A Catholic Social Teaching Perspective”          
2007 Quito   Latin American Committee            
2007

July

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia 4th IMCS International Committee “Empowering Student Action for Dialogue and Peace:          
2007

9/23- 9/28

Paris   European Committee:            
2009

11/15-11/22

Strasbourg   European Study Session: “Looking at Immigration in Europe through the Human Rights Perspective”          
2009

6/5 – 6/14

Quezon City,

Philippines

17th IMCS Pan Asia Pacific Assembly “Creating Empowered Students for Social Justice Through Integral Formation”          
2010

10/6 – 10/14

Arusha, Tanzania 10th IMCS Pan-African Assembly Good Governance and Leadership; Our Key to Development: African Youth up Against Corruption   Students from 23 Countries      
2011

July/August

Cologne 1st IMCS World Assembly Bridging Our Worlds: Going Beyond Borders”          
2011

9/12 – 9/19

Corfu

Greece

  European Committee: “I have a motion!          
2012

2/19 -2/26

Strasbourg

France

  European Study Session: “Creating empowered Students in Human Rights through Integral Education”.          
2012 7/30 – 8/5 Vienna, Austria   ICMICA Plenary Assembly Times of Crises, Time to Share Visionsand Actions-Searching for a new paradigm          
2015 07/24 – 08/03 Tagaytay City PHILIPPINES 2nd IMCS World Assembly “Salt of the Earth, Light of the World – Students Building the Kingdom of God”          
2016            10/28 – 11/1 Barcelona   ICMICA Plenary Assembly

From indifference to mercy. Our commitment?

         
                   
                   
2019          07/27 – 08/09 Lusaka, Zambia 3rd IMCS World Assembly Good Governance and Youth Participation for Sustainability: Students’ Response to Water & Sanitation Challenges