1921-1946 Leadership
IMCS Leadership
ICMICA Leadership
Key Dates
Dates | President | Country and historic note | Vice Presidents | Secretary General | Country and historic note | ||
1920 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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” |
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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” |
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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 |
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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, |
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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 |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 – |
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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 |
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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. |
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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) |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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” |
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1951 | Rheims, France | 30th Anniversary of Pax Romana
Join Assemblies |
Join IMCS and ICMCIA meetings
Msgr Roncalli (Apostolic Nuncio) later Pope John XXIII participated |
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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 |
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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 |
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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) |
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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. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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? |
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2019 07/27 – 08/09 | Lusaka, Zambia | 3rd | IMCS World Assembly | Good Governance and Youth Participation for Sustainability: Students’ Response to Water & Sanitation Challenges | |||||