Terrence Thomas Prendergast
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The Most Reverend Terrence Prendergast, S.J. |
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| Archbishop of Ottawa | |
| Archdiocese | Ottawa |
| Installed | June 26, 2007 |
| Predecessor | Marcel André J. Gervais |
| Other posts | Member of Vox Clara; Archbishop of Halifax (1998-2007); Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Yarmouth (2002-2007); Titular Bishop of Slebte and Auxiliary Bishop of Archdiocese of Toronto (1995-1998) |
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| Ordination | June 10, 1972 by Thomas Benjamin Fulton |
| Consecration | April 25, 1995 by Cardinal Aloysius Ambrozic |
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February 19, 1944 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian |
| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
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Terrence Thomas Prendergast, S.J., (born 19 February 1944) is a Canadian member of the Society of Jesus who is also a prelate of the Roman Catholic Church and serves as the Archbishop of Ottawa. He was formerly an Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Toronto and the Archbishop of Halifax.
A native of Montreal, Prendergast was born in 1944, one of five children. He entered the Jesuit novitiate in 1961 and was ordained a priest in 1972. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University, as well as the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Theology degrees from Saint Mary's University, Halifax through its earlier affiliation with Regis College, now part of the Toronto School of Theology.
For his period of Regency, Prendergast taught Latin and Greek at Loyola High School in Montreal from 1967-1969 and, after ordination and graduate studies in theology, taught in Halifax at the Atlantic School of Theology from 1975–1981, then was Rector of Toronto's Regis College from 1981–87, and its Dean of Theology from 1991-1994. From 1992-94 he assisted Frederick Henry, then the Auxiliary Bishop of London (Ontario), later Bishop of Thunder Bay and Bishop of Calgary, in conducting an apostolic visitation of the English-language seminaries in Canada for the Vatican. In 1995, he was a Visiting Professor at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem.
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