Édouard Gagnon
Édouard Cardinal Gagnon (born January 15, 1918) is a Roman Catholic cardinal and President Emeritus of the Pontifical Council for the Family. He became a cardinal on May 25, 1985.
Édouard Gagnon was born in Port-Daniel, Quebec, in the diocese of Gaspé, Canada. His theological studies were taken at the Major seminary of Montreal, where he earned a B.A. degree in Theology in 1940, and a doctorate degree in 1941.
Gagnon was ordained on 15 August 1940. He spent time from 1941 and 1944 at the Université Laval in Quebec, attending courses of canon law. After his nominate in 1945 he taught Moral Theology and Canon Law at the Major Seminary in the Theology Department.
He was head of the Major Seminary of Saint Boniface from 1954 to 1960. He participated in the Second Vatican Council.
He was Father Provincial of the Society of Saint-Sulpice for Canada, Japan and Latin America from 1966 to 1970.
Gagnon was named Bishop in St. Paul, Alberta on 19 February, 1969 and Archbishop of Giustiniana on 7 July 1983. He was then made a Cardinal by Pope John Paul II during the Consistory of 25 May, 1985, becoming the Cardinal Priest of the Titulus S. Marcelli.
He has held several important posts in the Roman Curia.
At one time president of the Pontifical Council for the Family, on 3 January 1991 he was nominated President of the Pontifical Committee for International Eucharistic Congresses.
In 1993, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
He is the Cardinal Patron of the Militia Templi, a groups of Catholic knights based in Tuscany.
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