A SHORT ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT AND OF THE STATUTES OF THE FIPC
| 1944 | Establishment of a French Federation. |
| 06.03.1947 | Approval of the French Federation by the French Bishops' Conference. |
| 20.05.1949 | Commendation by Pope Pius XII during the second International Congress in Rome. |
| March 1951 | Third International Congress in Rome |
| 06.04.1951 | Approval of the first statutes of the FIPC by Mgr Montini, by letter number 248.378. |
| 22.11.1958 | Renewal of the statutes and their extension for five years by a letter of Mgr Tardini, Pro Secretary of State. |
| 25.01.1964 | Establishment of the FIPC as a moral person of the Church by the protocol number 3317, signed by Cardinal Clemens Micara, Vicar General, and the Secretary, G. Giaquinta. |
| 15.02.1964 | Definitive approval of the modified statutes by Pope Paul V by letter number 25598. |
| 05.08.1983 | Approval of the modification of the statutes by Mgr G. B. Re, Assessor of the Secretariat of State, by letter number 95.688. |
| 29.12.1993 | Approval of the planned modification of the statutes by the General Assembly during the 21 st Pueri Cantores Congress in Rome. |
| 04.05.1994 | Modification of the statutes considered as meeting the requests made by the Secretariat of State of the Vatican by letter number 341.887. |
| 31.01.1996 | Decree of recognition as a universal private association of the faithful in accordance with the Code of Canon Law, canons 298 to 311 and 321 to 329 of Section V (Book II, Part I), by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, for five years. |
| 31.01.2001 | Decree of definitive recognition as a universal private association of the faithful in accordance with the Code of Canon Law, canons 298 to 311 and 321 to 329 of Section V (Book II, Part I), by the Pontifical Council for the Laity for the 5-year period of time. |