Maurice Roy

His Eminence Maurice Roy
Cardinal, Archbishop of Québec Primate of Canada
See	Québec
Installed	1 May 1946 – 20 March 1981
Predecessor	Jean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve
Successor	Louis-Albert Vachon
Other posts	Previously Bishop of Trois Rivières
Orders
Created Cardinal	22 February 1965
Personal details
Born	(1905-01-25)25 January 1905 Quebec City, Canada
Died	24 October 1985(1985-10-24) (aged 80) Quebec City, Canada
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Maurice Roy, CC OBE (January 25, 1905 – October 24, 1985) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

Maurice Roy was born in Quebec City as one of three children. His father was a judge, dean of the faculty of law at the University of Laval, and a friend of Maurice Duplessis. His mother was a descendant of the poet Napoléon Legendre. Initially homeschooled, he was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop Joseph Brunault on June 12, 1927 after attending the Seminary of Quebec from 1915 to 1923. He obtained his licentiate in theology from the Université Laval in 1927, and then studied at the Angelicum in Rome, receiving a doctorate in philosophy in 1929. From 1929 to 1930, he attended the Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute in Paris. Roy then taught dogmatic and sacramental theology and apologetics at Quebec's Grand Seminary until 1939. He worked as a chaplain to the University of Laval (1935–1937) and to the Canadian Army during World War II. He served in Great Britain, Italy, France, Belgium, Holland and Germany, 1939-1943, and attained the rank of Colonel. He was awarded the Order of the British Empire for his "extremely courageous conduct" as a chaplain in the war. Resuming his teaching posts upon his return to Canada in 1945, Roy was named superior of the seminary in December of that same year.