Marc Ouellet
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His Eminence Marc Ouellet P.S.S. |
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| Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops | |
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| Appointed | 30 June 2010 |
| Predecessor | Giovanni Battista Re |
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| Ordination | 25 May 1968 by Gaston Hains |
| Consecration | 19 March 2001 by Pope John Paul II |
| Created Cardinal | 21 October 2003 by Pope John Paul II |
| Rank | Cardinal Priest |
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| Birth name | Marc Armund Ouellet |
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8 June 1944 La Motte, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Parents | Pierre Ouellet and Graziella Michaud |
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Ut unum sint (That they may be one) — John 17:21 |
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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
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Marc Armand Ouellet,P.S.S. (born 8 June 1944), is a Canadian Cardinal prelate of the Catholic Church. He is the current prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and concurrently president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 30 June 2010. Previously, he was Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003. Ouellet was considered a contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on 28 February 2013.
Ouellet is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German. He is known for his missionary work in South America.
Ouellet was born on 8 June 1944 into a Catholic family of eight children in La Motte, Quebec. His father, Pierre, was a farmer who was self-taught, and later director-general of the area's school board. Young Ouellet attended mass at Église Saint-Luc (now a community centre) regularly with his family. In retrospect, Ouellet has described his family as religious but not very devout. His childhood interests included reading, ice hockey, hunting partridge, and fishing. One of his summer jobs was fighting forest fires. While recovering from a hockey injury at age 17, he read Thérèse of Lisieux and started a more focused search for meaning. Pierre was reluctant about the idea of his son entering the priesthood, but it was while still a teenager that Marc told him he had made a firm decision. He was ordained in 1968 at Eglise Saint-Luc. He became vicar at the Saint-Sauveur church in nearby Val-d'Or. In 1970 he left for South America to teach philosophy at the Major Seminary of Bogotá.
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