Gerald Emmett Carter
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His Eminence Gerald Emmett Carter |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop of Toronto | |
| See | Toronto |
| Installed | April 29, 1978 |
| Term ended | March 17, 1990 |
| Predecessor | Philip Francis Pocock |
| Successor | Aloysius Ambrozic |
| Other posts | Bishop of London |
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| Ordination | May 22, 1937 |
| Created Cardinal | June 30, 1979 |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
March 1, 1912 Montreal, Quebec |
| Died | April 6, 2003 (aged 91) Toronto, Ontario |
| Buried | Holy Cross Cemetery |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Coat of arms |  |
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Styles of (Gerald) Emmett) Carter |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Toronto (emeritus) |
Gerald Emmett Carter, CC (March 1, 1912 – April 6, 2003) was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979.
The youngest of eight children, Emmett Carter was born in Montreal, Quebec, to an Irish Catholic family. His father was a typesetter for The Montreal Star, his brother, Alexander, would become Bishop of Sault-Sainte-Marie, and two of his sisters would become nuns.
Carter attended the Collège de Montréal before studying at the Grand Seminary and the Université de Montréal, where he obtained his Licentiate in Theology in 1936. He was ordained to the priesthood by the Auxiliary Bishop of Montreal Alphonse-Emmanuel Deschamps on May 22, 1937.
Carter then did pastoral work in the Archdiocese of Montreal until 1939, when he became the first director of the English section of Jacques-Cartier Normal school.
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