- UNIAPAC
The International Christian Union of Business Executives or UNIAPAC is an
ecumenical organization forChristian businesspeople.History
The predecessors of the organization were national federations of Catholic employers in
The Netherlands in 1915,Belgium in 1921 andFrance in 1926. In 1931, a group of Catholic employers created a "International Comité d'Initiative" at the 40th anniversary of the EncyclicalRerum Novarum inRome . In addition they took the intiative to organize regularly "Internationales des Associations Patronales Catholiques". UNIAPAC was founded in Rome in 1931 as the "International Conferences of Catholic Employers" by the organizations of Catholic Entrepreneurs from France, Belgium and The Netherlands and also people fromItaly , Germany andCzechoslovakia .In 1946, under General Secretary A.H.M. Albregst, UNIAPAC was established as the "Union Internationale des Associations Patronales Catholiques". In 1948 UNIAPAC expanded to Latin-America, starting in
Chile . In 1958, a permanent international secretariat was created inBrussels with the support ofLéon Bekaert (Belgium) andPeter H. Werhahn (Germany).Presidents
* 1956-1959:
Giuseppe Mosca (Italy)
* 1960-1964:Peter H. Werhahn (Germany)
* 1965-1968:Léon de Rosen (France)
* 1969-1972:Reinier A.H.M. Dobbelmann (The Netherlands)
* 1973-1976:Romuald Burkard (Switzerland)
* 1977-1981:Carlos E. Dietl (Argentina)
* 1981-1985:Antoine Bekaert (Belgium)
* 1986-1987:Philippe de Weck (Switzerland)
* 1988-1990:Ernst van den Biggelaar (The Netherlands)
* 1990-1993:Michel Albert (France)
* 1994-1996:Guy de Wouters (Belgium)
* 1997-2000:Domingo Sugranyes (Spain)
* 2000-2003:H. Onno Ruding (The Netherlands)
* 2003-2006:Etienne Wibaux (France)
* 2006-:José Ignacio Mariscal (Mexico)ource
* [http://www.lesedc.org/Uniapac.html UNIAPAC] ]
* [http://www.christiansinpolitics.org/May-2005-The-UNIAPAC_a163.html UNIAPAC]
* John D. Donovan, "The Catholic Movement of Employers and Managers: A Study of UNIAPAC", Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Spring, 1964), pp. 276-277External links
* [http://www.uniapac.org/ UNIAPAC]
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