His Excellency Joseph-Thomas Duhamel |
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Archbishop of Ottawa | |
Joseph-Thomas Duhamel, Feb 1895
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Church | Roman Catholic |
Archdiocese | Ottawa |
Installed | 1874 |
Term ended | 1909 |
Predecessor | Joseph-Bruno Guigues |
Successor | Charles-Hughes Gauthier |
Personal details | |
Born |
Contrecœur, Lower Canada |
6 November 1841
Died | 5 June 1909 Casselman, Ontario |
(aged 67)
Joseph-Thomas Duhamel (6 November 1841 – 5 June 1909) was a Canadian Roman Catholic priest and Archbishop of Ottawa.
Born in Contrecœur, Lower Canada, he was educated at St. Joseph's College, Ottawa, and ordained in 1863. He became Bishop of Ottawa in 1874 and Archbishop of Ottawa in 1886. In 1887, he became metropolitan of the ecclesiastical province of Ottawa. He was chancellor of the University of Ottawa.