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Chronology of events

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.