Louis-Nazaire Bégin

His Eminence Louis-Nazaire Bégin
Cardinal, Archbishop of Quebec

See	Quebec
Installed	April 12, 1898—July 18, 1925
Predecessor	Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau †
Successor	Paul-Eugène Roy †
Other posts	Previously Coadjutor Archbishop of Quebec
Orders
Created Cardinal	May 25, 1914
Personal details
Born	January 10, 1840 Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévis (Lévis), Canada
Died	July 18, 1925 Quebec, Canada
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Styles of Louis-Nazaire Bégin

Reference style	His Eminence
Spoken style	Your Eminence
Informal style	Cardinal
See	Quebec

Louis-Nazaire Bégin (January 10, 1840 – July 18, 1925) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1898 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1914.

Louis-Nazaire Bégin was born in Saint-Joseph-de-la-Pointe-Lévis (Today named Lévis), Quebec, to a modest family of farmers whose ancestors came from Normandy, France, to Canada in 1655. He completed his primary studies at École modèle in Lévis, and later collège commercial in Bellechasse. From 1862 to 1863, Bégin studied classicals and theology at the seminary in Quebec. He attended Laval University before going to Rome, where he studied at the Pontifical French Seminary (September 1863-1867). He was ordained to the priesthood by Costantino Cardinal Patrizi Naro on June 10, 1865, in the Lateran Basilica.

Bégin then furthered his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University, from where he obtained his doctorate in theology in 1866; he also studied the Hebrew, Chaldean, Syrian, and Arabic languages. From 1867 to 1868, he studied in the Theological Faculty of the University of Innsbruck, perfecting his previous studies and learning German. During this time, Bégin also traveled to Palestine and spent five months in the Holy Land.