On January 21, His Excellency, the Most Reverend Robert Finn, Bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph (in which the Institute's Old Saint Patrick's Oratory is located) visited the international seminary in Gricigliano.
In December the Institute's international seminary was honored to receive the visit of His Excellency, the Most Reverend Athanasius Schneider, ORC, Auxiliary Bishop in Kazakhstan, who has already celebrated Holy Mass at the Institute's Mass apostolate in Rome at Chiesa Gesu e Maria.
As the already large number of seminarians from the United States continues to steadily increase, the celebration of American Thanksgiving at our International Seminary in Gricigliano, Italy, becomes grander with each passing year.
On December 8, Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest organized for the second consecutive year a candlelight Marian procession through the very heart of Rome in honor of Mary Immaculate.
On Sunday, September 20, 2009, His Excellency the Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone, Bishop of Oakland, California, celebrated a Pontifical High Mass at Saint Margaret Mary church.
Dozens of friends of the Institute from the four corners of the United States came to the Shrine of Christ the King for the national retreat of the lay Society of the Sacred Heart.
In joyful gratitude to Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception, patroness of the Institute, for having received the Pontifical Right status from the Holy See, the Institute organized a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France.
In California Canon Jean-Marie Moreau and a large group of faithful from the Institute's Oakland apostolate participated in the annual West Coast Walk for Life.
At the request of His Grace, Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of Milwaukee, the Institute of Christ the King now offers a High Mass on the fourth Sunday of every month at Holy Name of Jesus Church in Sheboygan, Wisconsin.
On January 29, feast of Saint Francis de Sales, Institute priests and seminarians, as well as the Sisters Adorers of the Royal Heart of Jesus, made a pilgrimage to Treviso, Italy, where the heart of Saint Francis de Sales is enshrined and honored in the convent of the Visitation Sisters.