Canadian religious leader and Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. Twenty-first bishop and eleventh archbishop of Québec. A native of the city of Québec, he studied at the Grand Seminary in his hometown, then went the University of La Sorbonne and the Catholic Institute, in Paris; and finally to the Pontifical Angelicum Athenaeum, in Rome. He was ordained priest , on June 12, 1927, in Québec. After three years of further studies, he became in 1930 a Faculty member of the Grand Seminary of Québec, a charge he kept officially until 1946. During WWII, he enlisted as chaplain and served overseas with the Royal 22nd Regiment, before becoming Chief chaplain of the Canadian Armed Forces. In 1945 and 1946, he acted as superior of the Grand Seminary of Québec. On May 1, 1946, he was consecrated as the fifth bishop of Trois-Rivières. A month later, on June 8, he was appointed Military vicar of Canada. And less than a year later, precisely on June 2, 1946, he was promoted to the metropolitan see of Québec. When Québec was consecrated as the primatial see of Canada, in 1956, he took the title of Primate of Canada. He took an active part in the proceedings of Vatican II Council. Pope Paul VI created him on cardinal priest, on February 22, 1965. He was named President of the Council for Laity and of Pontifical Commission Iustitia et Pax, on January 6, 1967. On January 11, 1973, he became President of the Pontifical Committee for Family. He had a big influence on the evolution of the Québec society and was a low profile but very effective actor of many fruitful reforms throughout his long episcopate. He participated in both conclaves of 1978. He resigned the pastoral government of his archdiocese, on March 20, 1981 and did the same for the military vicariate, on March 12, 1982. He retired at the monastery of the Augustines Sisters of the Hôpital Général de Québec. He passed away in his beloved episcopal city and was buried in the crypt of the bishops he help build under the cathedral-basilica of Notre-Dame.