Marc Ouellet

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Marc Armand Ouellet (born 8 June 1944) is a Canadian Cardinal prelate of the Catholic Church.

He has been the prefect of the Congregation for Bishops and president of the Pontifical Commission for Latin America since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 30 June 2010.

He was Archbishop of Quebec and Primate of Canada from 2002 to 2010.

He was made a cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 21 October 2003.

Ouellet was considered a papabile to succeed Pope Benedict XVI, who resigned on 28 February 2013.Ouellet is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and German.

He is known for his missionary work in South America.

Early life

Ouellet was born on 8 June 1944 into a Catholic family of eight children in La Motte, Quebec. His father, Pierre, was a farmer who was self-taught, and later director-general of the area's school board. Ouellet attended Mass at Église Saint-Luc (now a community centre) regularly with his family. Ouellet later 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 Thérèse of Lisieux and started a more focused search for meaning. Although his father was reluctant to see his son become a priest, Ouellet while still a teenager informed him he had made a firm decision.

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Early career

He studied at the Metropolitan Seminary of Montreal from 1964 to 1969, receiving a licentiate in theology. On May 25, 1968, he was ordained a priest. He served at the Saint-Sauveur church in Val-d'Or from 1968 to 1970, then began years of alternating seminary studies with further research. He studied philosophy at the Major Seminary of Bogotá, Colombia, which was run by the Sulpicians, from 1970 to 1971. In 1972, he joined the Sulpicians. He received a degree in philosophy at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas Angelicum in Rome in 1974. He returned to teaching at the Major Seminary of Manizales, Colombia, learning from its leadership and then playing those same roles at the Grand Séminaire de Montréal beginning in 1976. He began studying dogmatic theology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1978, receiving a doctorate in 1983 on Hans Urs von Balthasar.

He taught at the Major Seminary of Cali and then served as rector of the Major Seminary of Manzinales from 1984 to 1989, returning to Colombia in 1983. He was rector of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal in 1990 and then rector of St. Joseph's Seminary in Edmonton in 1994. He served as the head of dogmatic theology at the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the Family from 1996 to 2002, which was later part of Pontifical Lateran University.

Ouellet began serving on the editorial board of Communio, a Catholic theology journal, after the Second Vatican Council by "conservatives dissatisfied with some of the excesses that followed the Second Vatican Council." He was appointed a consultant to the Congregation of the Clergy in 1995 and 1999 for the Congregation of Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. "A devotee of Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar, a darling of the Catholic right," whose work was the subject of Ouellet's 1983 doctoral dissertation.

On March 3rd, Ouellet was proclaimed titular archbishop of Agropoli and secretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity. In St. Peter's Basilica, Pope John Paul II proclaimed him a bishop on March 19th. He was appointed a consultant to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith on June 12, 2001.

Ouellet is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, and German.

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