- Aloysius Ambrozic
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cardinal name=Aloysius Ambrozicoffstyle=Your Eminence
See=Toronto (emeritus )|Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (born
January 27 ,1930 ) is aRoman Catholic cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Toronto. He became a cardinal onFebruary 21 ,1998 .Ambrozic was born in Gabrje,
Slovenia as Alojzij Ambrožič. In 1945 he and his family fled toAustria , where he completed high school in variousrefugee camp s. The family went toCanada in 1948, and Ambrozic was ordained as a priest in Toronto in 1955. He served first inPort Colborne, Ontario , and later taught atSt. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto. He also studiedtheology inRome (he earned degree in theology from the "Angelicum"), and in 1970 he earned adoctorate in theology at theUniversity of Würzburg inGermany . He taughtexegesis at theToronto School of Theology from 1970 to 1976, when he was named Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto. In 1990 he became Archbishop. In 1998 he was created cardinal byPope John Paul II , with the "Titulus Ss. Marcellini et Petri", and he is currently a member of theCollege of Cardinals . He was appointed to thePontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of Migrants and Itinerants in 1990, theCongregation for the Clergy in 1991, thePontifical Council for Culture in 1993, and to theCongregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in 1999. He was one of the cardinal electors who participated in the 2005 papal conclave that selectedPope Benedict XVI . He retired onDecember 16 ,2006 .During his archiepiscopate, Toronto hosted
World Youth Day in 2002. He is a vocal opponent ofsame-sex marriage in Canada .Ambrozic has been a somewhat contentious figure in Canadian Catholicism, and the subject of vocal opposition from some liberal or progressive Catholics or former Catholics for his conservative stands. At the same time, he rejected a request from the Toronto Traditional Mass Society (the local chapter of
Una Voce ) to invite thePriestly Fraternity of St. Peter to offerTridentine Mass es in the archdiocese [http://www.unavocetoronto.com/news/ambroziclettersFeb06.html] .Ambrozic was succeeded by
Thomas Christopher Collins in early 2007.References
* [http://www.archtoronto.org/ter/cardinal.htm Cardinal Ambrozic] from the [http://www.archtoronto.org/ Archdiocese of Toronto]
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