The Solemnity of Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of the Universe, also, referred to as the Feast of Christ the King, Christ the King Sunday, or Reign of Christ Sunday.
While the affirmation of Jesus Christ being King appears in the Gospels, the feast was established, fairly recently.
The feast was introduced in the Western liturgical calendar in 1925 by Pope Pius XI, via the encyclical "Quas Primas." Pope Pius XI was about to close the Jubilee year of 1925 in the context of the growing secularist nationalism that followed the fall of European kingdoms after World War I, and decided to establish the solemnity to point to a king, to the King and "of whose kingdom there shall be no end.”
Surprisingly, the first parish in the world to be consecrated in honor of Our Lord Christ the King was established by Pope Pius XI not in Europe, but in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1926.
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