FIUV International Federation Una Voce: FIUV Statutes

The Federation's were substantially revised in 2012 and since then have been amended; the most recent ammendments were adopted by its members on the 14th June 2022. The revised version annuls and replaces all previous Statutes of the Federation.

STATUTES (.pdf)

The Objects of the International Federation UNA VOCE
The Aims of the UNA VOCE Movement
Patron, Duration and Seat of the Federation
Members of the Federation
Decisions of the Federation
General Assemblies of the Federation
Written Votes of the Federation
The Council of the Federation
Officers of the Federation
Resources of the Federation
Duties of Members of the Federation
Dissolution of the Federation
Information Note
Adoption and Amendment of these Statutes

STATUTES INFORMATION NOTE (.pdf)

This Information Note shall be a binding interpretation of the Statutes of the International Federation Una Voce as adopted by the Members of the Federation on the 27th day of August in the year of Our Lord 2012, as amended.

Prophetic words of the Founder...

“A renaissance will come: asceticism and adoration as the mainspring of direct total dedication to Christ will return. Confraternities of priests, vowed to celibacy and to an intense life of prayer and meditation will be formed. Religious will regroup themselves into houses of 'strict observance'. A new form of 'Liturgical Movement' will come into being, led by young priests and attracting mainly young people, in protest against the flat, prosaic, philistine or delirious liturgies which will soon overgrow and finally smother even the recently revised rites..."

--- Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem, founding President of the International Una Voce Federation, New York 1970

Our abiding mission...

“It is vitally important that these new priests and religious, these new young people with ardent hearts, should find -- if only in a corner of the rambling mansion of the Church -- the treasure of a truly sacred liturgy still glowing softly in the night. And it is our task – since we have been given the grace to appreciate the value of this heritage -- to preserve it from spoliation, from becoming buried out of sight, despised and therefore lost forever. It is our duty to keep it alive: by our own loving attachment, by our support for the priests who make it shine in our churches, by our apostolate at all levels of persuasion...”

--- Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem, founding President of the International Una Voce Federation, New York 1970

Dr Borghild Krane, co-founder of the International Una Voce Federation

In 1964, Dr Borghild Krane, an eminent psychologist in Norway, sent out an appeal to concerned Catholics to group together in defence of the Church's liturgical heritage. As a result of that appeal a number of national associations came into being in 1964-65. The first interim President of the nascent and inchoate Federation was His Serene Highness Duke Filippo Caffarelli. Delegates from six European associations met in Rome early in 1965 and the International Federation was formally erected in Zurich on 8 January 1967. Delegates from 20 associations approved the draft statutes and elected the first Council and a new President, Dr Erich Vermehren de Saventhem.