Christ the King
What it commemorates
The feast proclaims the kingship of Christ over individuals, families and society; Pope Pius XI instituted it in 1925.
Place in the liturgical year
In the 1962 calendar it falls on the last Sunday of October.
In the 1962 Latin Mass Calendar
In the 1962 calendar it is kept as a day of the first class: D.N. Iesu Christi Regis.
Modern Roman Calendar
The Modern Roman Calendar ranks it as a solemnity; its ranks differ from the four classes of 1962. It is kept there on the last Sunday of the liturgical year, before Advent.