Agenzia Fides - Agenzia della Congregazione per l'Evangelizzazione dei Popoli

The Congresses took their origin in the last century from a fervent Eucharistic devotion that challenged the ignorance and religious indifference regarding the central Mystery of the Church: the Eucharist.
They developed in harmonious cooperation between laity and clergy.
"The salvation of society through the Eucharist" was from the first the motto of the Congresses.
With the second Vatican Council the Eucharistic Congresses took on a new image, reflected in the expression "Statio Orbis": the gathering of the particular Churches in a city, with the Pope or his Legate, around Christ, present in his Eucharistic Mystery, whose meaning is to be made manifest.
Ritual, 1973: "Communion and Eucharistic worship outside Mass", nn. 109-112).
The Eucharistic Celebration, with the other expressions of Eucharistic worship (adoration and procession) is the centre and summit of the study sessions and various manifestations.
The International Eucharistic Congresses manifest in this way the faith in the Eucharistic Mystery. They express also the communion of the universal Church, a Church that experiences its solidarity with the modern world, faced with such fundamental problems as those of sharing and justice, of the sanctity of the family, respect for every creature and world peace.
The Eucharistic Congresses have had and have an important role in making better known and giving practical expression to the centrality of the Eucharist in the life and mission of the Church in our day.

N.	*PLACE*	*DATE*	*POPE*	*POPE’S CARDINAL-LEGATE*	*THEMES*

1.	LILLE (F)	28-30/06/1881	Leo XIII		The first 24 International Eucharistic Congresses were mainly Congresses that dealt with activities relating to the Eucharist “Oeuvres eucharistiques” - the cult of adoration, processions, Holy Communion (particularly of children), the Sacrifice of the Mass, eucharistic associations and movements.
2.	AVIGNON (F)	13-17/09/1882	"
3.	LIÈGE (B)	05-10/06/1883	"
4.	FRIBOURG (CH)	09-13/09/1885	"
5.	TOULOUSE (F)	20-25/06/1985	"
6.	PARIS (F)	02-06/07/1888	"
7.	ANVERS (B)	16-21/08/1890	"
8.	JERUSALEM	14-21/05/1893	"	Cardinal B. Langenieux (Arch. di Reims)
9.	REIMS (F)	25-29/07/1894	"
10.	PARAY-LE-MONIAL (F)	20-24/09/1897	"
11.	BRUXELLES (B)	13-17/07/1898	"	Cardinal V. Vannutelli (Préf. S.C.Conc.)
12.	LOURDES (F)	07-11/08/1899	"	Cardinal B. Langenieux (Arch. of Reims)
13.	ANGERS (F)	04-09/09/1901	"
14.	NAMUR (B)	03-07/09/1902	"	Cardinal P.L. Goossens (Arch.of Malines)
15.	ANGOULÊME (F)	20-24/06/1904	Pius X
16.	ROMA (I)	01-04/06/1905	"	The Pope himself presided
17.	TOURNAI (B)	15-19/08/1906	"	Cardinal V. Vannutelli (Pref. S.C.Conc.)
18.	METZ (F)	06-11/08/1907	"
19.	LONDON (GB)	08-13/09/1908	"
20.	KÖLN (D)	04-08/08/1909	"
21.	MONTRÉAL (CAN)	07-11/09/1910	"
22.	MADRID (E)	23/6-01/7 1911	"	Cardinal G. Aguirrey (Arch. of Toledo)
23.	WIEN (A)	12-15/09/1912	"	Cardinal G. Van Rossum
24.	MALTA	23-27/04/1913	"	Cardinal D. Ferrata (Pref. S.C. Sacr.)
25.	LOURDES (F)	22-26/07/1914	"	Cardinal G. Pignatelli of Belmonte	The Eucharist and the Social Reign of Jesus Christ
26.	ROMA (I)	24-29/05/1922	Pius XI	The Pope himself presided	The Peaceful Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ in the Eucharist
27.	AMSTERDAM (NL)	22-27/06/1924	"	Cardinal G. Van Rossum (Pref. Prop. Fidei)	The Eucharist and Holland
28.	CHICAGO (USA)	20-24/06/1926	"	Cardinal G. Bonzano	The Peace of Christ in the Reign of Christ
29.	SYDNEY (AUS)	06-09/09/1928	"	Cardinal B. Carretti	The Madonna and the Eucharist
30.	CARTHAGE (TUN)	07-11/05/1930	"	Cardinal A.E. Lépicier (Pref. Congr. Relig.)	The Eucharist in Africa’s Testimony
31.	DUBLIN (IR)	21-26/06/1932	"	Cardinal L. Lauri (Penit.Major)	The Eucharist and Ireland
32.	BUENOS AIRES (ARG)	10-14/10/1934	"	Cardinal E. Pacelli (Secretary of State)	The Social Reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the Eucharist
33.	MANILA (PHIL)	03-07/02/1937	"	Cardinal Dougherty (Arch. of Philadelphia)	The Eucharistic Apostolate in the Missions
34.	BUDAPEST (H)	25-30/05/1938	"	Cardinal E. Pacelli (Secretary of State)	The Eucharist Bond of Charity
35.	BARCELONA (E)	27/05-1/06/1952	Pius XII	Cardinal F. Tedeschini (Bursar of the H.See)	The Eucharist and Peace
36.	RIO DE JANEIRO (BR)	17-24/07/1955	"	Cardinal B.A. Massella (Pref. S.C. Sacr.)	The Eucharistic Reign of Christ the Redeemer
37.	MÜNCHEN (D)	31/07-07/08/1960	John XXIII	Cardinal G. Testa (Pref. Orient. Churches)	“Pro Mundi Vita”
38.	BOMBAY (IND)	28/11-08/12/1964	Paul VI	Cardinal Agagianian (Pref. Prop. Fidei)	The Eucharist and the New Man
39.	BOGATÁ (COLOM)	18-25/08/1968	"	Cardinal G. Lercaro (Arch. of Bologna)	“Vinculum Charitatis”
40.	MELBOURNE (AUS)	18-25/02/1973	"	Cardinal L. Shehan (Arch. of Baltimore)	“Love one another as I have loved you”
41.	PHILADELPHIA (USA)	01-08/08/1976	"	Cardinal J. Knox (Pref. Sacr. & Divine Worship)	The Eucharist and the Aspirations of the Humain Family
42.	LOURDES (F)	16-23/07/1981	John Paul II	Cardinal B. Gantin (President Justice & Peace)	Jesus Christ Bread Broken for a New World
43.	NAIROBI (KEN)	11-18/08/1985	"	Cardinal J. Cordeiro (Arch. of Karachi)	The Eucharist and the Christian Family
44.	SEOUL (KOR)	05-08/10/1989	"	Cardinal R. Etchegary (President Justice & Peace	“Christus Pax Nostra”
45.	SEVILLA (E)	07-13/06/1993	"	Cardinal Lopez Rodriguez (Arch. of S. Domingo)	The Eucharist and Evangelisation
46.	WROCLAW (PL)	25/05-01/06/1997	"	Cardinal A. Sodano (Secretary of State)	The Eucharist and Freedom
47.	ROMA (I)	18-25/06/2000	"	The Pope himself presided	Jesus Christ Only Saviour of the World, Bread for New Life
48.	GUADALAJARA (MEX)	10-17/10/2004		Cardinal Josef Tomko	The Eucharist, light and life of the new millennium