Cardinal Marc
Ouellet, P.S.S., Archbishop of Québec and Primate of Canada, was
born on 8 June 1944 in Lamotte, near Amos, Canada. He was ordained a
priest for the Diocese of Amos on 25 May 1968. He holds licentiates in
theology and philosophy, and a doctorate in dogmatic theology.
Cardinal Ouellet served as consultor to the Sulpicians’ Provincial
Council of Canada, and then director and teacher at the Major Seminary
of Montreal, where he became rector in 1990. He also served briefly as
rector of St Joseph's Seminary, Edmonton.
He was consultor to the Congregation for the Clergy, then to the General
Council of the Priests of Saint Sulpice. He later taught at the John
Paul II Institute at the Pontifical Lateran University, where in 1997 he
was appointed to the chair of dogmatic theology.
On 3 March 2001, he was
named titular Bishop of Agropoli and Secretary of the Pontifical Council
for Promoting Christian Unity; Pope John Paul II ordained him a Bishop
on 19 March of that year.
On 15 November 2002, Cardinal Ouellet was appointed Metropolitan
Archbishop of Quebec.
Cardinal Ouellet is a member of the
Pontifical Academy of Theology.
Relator General of the XII Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops,
“The Word of God in the Life and Mission of the Church” (5-26 October
2008). Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the
Consistory of
21 October 2003, of the Title of S. Maria in Traspontina (Holy Mary in
Transpontina).
Member of:
- Congregations: for Divine Worship and the Discipline of
Sacraments; for Catholic Education; for the Clergy;
- Pontifical Council for Culture;
- Pontifical Commission for Latin America;
- Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses;
- Council of Cardinals for the Study of
Organizational and Economic Affairs of the Holy See;
- XI Ordinary Council of the General
Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops.
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