Christ the King · Eyd-e Masih-e Padeshah

Culture of origin: Christian · Cultural

Holiday sources: Australia (national) · Canada (federal) · Christianity · France · Germany (nationwide) · United Kingdom (England and Wales) · United States (federal)

Pope Pius XI instituted the feast of Christ the King in 1925 with the encyclical Quas primas, as an answer to rising secularism and nationalism. Since 1969 the Catholic Church has kept it on the last Sunday of the church year, the Sunday before Advent, between November 20 and 26. Anglicans ("the Sunday next before Advent"), Lutherans and Methodists keep it too.