Marc Ouellet
Marc Armand Ouellet, P.S.S. , is a Canadian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He is the influential present prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and concurrently president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI onJune 2010. Previously, he was Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada. He was elevated to the cardinalate by Pope John Paul II, onOctober 2003. Ouellet was considered a contender to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned onFebruary 2013.
Ouellet was born onJune 1944 into a Catholic family of eight children in La Motte, Quebec. His father, Pierre, was a farmer who was selftaught, and later directorgeneral of the areas school board. Young Ouellet attended mass at glise SaintLuc 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 Thrse 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 SaintLuc. He became vicar at the SaintSauveur church in nearby ValdOr. In 1970 he left for South America to teach in a seminary.
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