Kelvin Felix
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His Eminence Kelvin Edward Felix |
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| Cardinal, Archbishop Emeritus of Castries | |
| Church | Roman Catholic Church |
| Archdiocese | Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Castries |
| See | Castries |
| In office | 1981-2008 |
| Predecessor | Patrick Webster |
| Successor | Robert Rivas |
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| Ordination | 8 April 1956 |
| Consecration | 5 October 1981 by Paul Fouad Naim Tabet |
| Created Cardinal | 22 February 2014 by Pope Francis |
| Rank | Cardinal-Priest of Santa Maria della Salute a Primavalle |
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| Born |
15 February 1933 Roseau, Dominica |
| Motto | "Ut omnes ut unum sint" (That all may be one) |
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| Ordination history of Kelvin Felix | |
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Priestly ordination
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| Date of ordination | 8 April 1956 |
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Episcopal consecration
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| Principal consecrator | Paul Fouad Naïm Tabet |
| Co-consecrators |
Gordon Anthony Pantin, CSSp Samuel Emmanuel Carter, SJ |
| Date of consecration | 5 October 1981 |
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Cardinalate
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| Elevated by | Pope Francis |
| Date of elevation | 22 February 2014 |
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Bishops consecrated by Kelvin Felix as principal consecrator
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| Edward Joseph Gilbert, C.SS.R | 7 September 1994 |
| Gabriel Malzaire | 4 October 2002 |
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Styles of Kelvin Edward Felix |
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| Reference style | His Eminence |
| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
Kelvin Edward Cardinal Felix (born 15 February 1933) is the Roman Catholic Archbishop emeritus of Castries. He was born in Roseau, Dominica, on 15 February 1933. He became a cardinal at the papal consistory held on 22 February 2014.
Felix was born in Dominica and ordained a priest on 8 April 1956. In 1962 he left the West Indies for St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia, where he attained a Diploma in Adult Education in 1963, gained a master's degree from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana in Sociology and Anthropology in 1967 and completed post graduate studies in Sociology at the University of Bradford in England in 1970. He was the Principal of the Roman Catholic High School in Dominica from 1972–75 and Associate General Secretary of the Caribbean Conference of Churches from 1975–81.
Felix was consecrated archbishop on 5 October 1981 and served as President of the Antilles Episcopal Conference from 1991–1997 and President of the Caribbean Conference of Churches from 1981–86. He is now a member of the Roman Curia. The Province of Castries, of which Archbishop Felix was the Metropolitan, includes St. George's-in-Grenada, Roseau, Dominica, and St. John's-Basseterre, Antigua/St. Kitts. The Diocese of Kingstown was suffragan of the Archdiocese of Castries until 2011 when it was transferred to the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Port of Spain. In addition to the administration of the Catholic Church in St. Lucia, Archbishop Felix was responsible for 33 primary schools, two secondary schools, one girls' vocational school, two homes for the elderly, one shelter for the homeless and an orphanage for young children.
On 12 April 2006, Felix was attacked and grabbed on the neck by a man with a knife, as soon as he finished an evening sermon at the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Castries. The man ran after Felix was aware of a sawing motion on his throat, and then pushed him backwards. News of the event made Saint Lucian natives reminiscent of a similar attack at the same Cathedral on New Year's Eve, 2000, in which a nun was killed and another injured.
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