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Paul-Émile Léger

Paul-Émile Léger
CC GOQ GCM PSS
Cardinal, Archbishop emeritus of Montreal
See Montreal (Emeritus)
Installed March 25, 1950 – April 20, 1968
Predecessor Joseph Charbonneau
Successor Paul Grégoire
Other posts Previously Rector of Pontifical Canadian College
Orders
Created Cardinal January 12, 1953
Personal details
Born April 26, 1904
Valleyfield, Canada
Died 13 November 1991(1991-11-13) (aged 87)
Montreal, Canada
Motto Ipsa duce non fatigaris
(With her (the Blessed Virgin Mary) leading, you shall not tire)
Styles of
Paul-Émile Léger
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Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Montreal (emeritus)

Paul-Émile Léger CC GOQ GCM PSS (April 26, 1904 – November 13, 1991) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Montreal from 1950 to 1968, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1953 by Pope Pius XII.

Paul-Émile Léger was born in Valleyfield, Quebec, to Ernest and Alda (née Beauvais) Léger; his younger brother, Jules Léger, was Governor General of Canada from 1974 to 1980.





. From 1916 to 1925, he attended the Seminary of Sainte-Thérèse, but was forced to interrupt his studies for a period of four years due to illness. Léger entered the Jesuit novitiate at Sault-au-Récollet, but was considered too emotional to continue in that order.

After attending the Seminary of Montreal (from where he obtained a licentiate in theology in 1929), he was ordained to the priesthood on May 25, 1929. Léger then joined the Society of Saint-Sulpice, entering its novitiate in Issy-les-Moulineaux. He went on to study at the Catholic Institute of Paris, and received his doctorate in canon law in 1931.


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