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| Spoken style | Your Eminence |
| Informal style | Cardinal |
| See | Quebec |
Maurice RoyCC OBE (January 25, 1905 – October 24, 1985) was aCanadian Catholic prelate who served asArchbishop of Quebec from 1947 to 1981. He was elevated to thecardinalate in 1965.
Roy was born inQuebec City as one of three children. His father was ajudge, thedean of thefaculty of law at the University of Laval, and a friend ofMaurice Duplessis. His mother was a descendant of the poet Napoléon Legendre. Initiallyhomeschooled, he wasordained to thepriesthood byBishop Joseph Brunault on June 12, 1927 after attending theSeminary of Quebec from 1915 to 1923. He obtained hislicentiate in theology from theUniversité Laval in 1927, and then studied at theAngelicum inRome, receiving adoctorate inphilosophy in 1929. From 1929 to 1930, he attended theSorbonne and theCatholic Institute inParis. Roy then taughtdogmatic andsacramentaltheology andapologetics at Quebec's Grand Seminary until 1939. He worked as achaplain to the University of Laval (1935–1937) and to theCanadian Army duringWorld War II. He served in the United Kingdom, Italy, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany from 1939 to 1943 and attained the rank of colonel. He was awarded theOrder of the British Empire for his "extremely courageous conduct" as a chaplain in the war.[1] Resuming his teaching posts upon his return to Canada in 1945, Roy was namedsuperior of the seminary in December of that same year.
On February 22, 1946, Roy was appointedBishop of Trois Rivières byPope Pius XII. Roy received hisepiscopal consecration on the following May 1 from CardinalJean-Marie-Rodrigue Villeneuve,OMI, with BishopsAlbini Lafortune andArthur Douville serving asco-consecrators, in theCathedral-Basilica of Notre-Dame. His episcopal motto wasIn nomine Jesu.[2] Roy became Bishop of the Catholic Military Vicariate of Canada on June 8 of the same year, later resigning from the post on March 12, 1982, after thirty-five years of service.
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A little over a year after Roy's first episcopal appointment, Pope Pius raised him toArchbishop of Quebec on June 2, 1947. He was madePrimate of theCanadian Church upon Quebec's elevation to that ecclesiastical rank on January 24, 1956.
Roy condemned the supposedmiracles ofSaint-Sylvestre in 1949,[3] and prohibited Fr.Georges-Henri Lévesque from sitting onParliament in 1955, fearing that a priest with such a position would bring embarrassment to the Church.[4] Participating in theSecond Vatican Council (1962–1965), Roy was createdCardinal-Priest ofNostra Signora del Ss. Sacramento e Santi Martiri Canadesi byPope Paul VI in theconsistory of February 22, 1965. He was named the first President of thePontifical Council for the Laity and of thePontifical Council for Justice and Peace on January 6, 1967, and then first President of thePontifical Council for the Family on January 11, 1973.
As President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity and of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, it was to Roy, that Pope Paul VI addressed his apostolic letter of 14 May 1971,Octogesima adveniens commemorating the eightieth anniversary of Rerum novarum and discussing the role of the laity and local churches in responding to situations of injustices.
In 1971 Roy was made a Companion of theOrder of Canada, and he resigned all three of hisCurial posts on December 16, 1976. He was acardinal elector in theconclaves ofAugust andOctober 1978, and stepped down as Quebec's archbishop on March 20, 1981,[2] after a period of thirty-three years.
Roy died in his sleep at a hospital in Quebec, at age 80. He is buried in thecrypt of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame. Thus hisbaptism,confirmation, priestly ordination, episcopal consecration, installment as Archbishop of Quebec, and burial all took place at the Cathedral of Notre-Dame.[5]
Canada:
Order of Canada – (early 1970s)[6]
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| Preceded by | Bishop of Trois Rivières 1946–1947 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Bishop ofMilitary Ordinariate of Canada 1946–1982 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | Archbishop of Quebec 1947–1981 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by none | President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity 1967–1976 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by none | President of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace 1967–1976 | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by none | President of the Pontifical Council for the Family 1973–1976 | Succeeded by |
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