Olivier Elzéar Mathieu (24 December 1853 – 26 October 1929) was a

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priest, academic, and

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Biography

Born in

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, the son of Joseph Mathieu and Marguerite Latouche, he studied at the Quebec Seminary and received a Doctor of Theology in 1878 from

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. He was ordained a priest by Cardinal

Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau (February 17, 1820 – April 12, 1898) was a Canadian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Quebec from 1871 until his death in 1898. The first Canadian cardinal, he was elevated to the Coll ...

in 1878 and was appointed professor of philosophy at Laval University. In 1882, he went to study in Borne, Italy and received a Doctor of Philosophy and Doctor of the Academy of Saint Thomas. Returning to Quebec, he received a Master of Arts in 1889. From 1899 to 1908, he was

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of Université Laval. Mathieu was appointed a

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(CMG) during the visit to Canada of TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall and York (later

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and Queen Mary) in October 1901. He was later created a Knight of the

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. In 1911, he was appointed Bishop of Regina and Archbishop of Regina in 1915.

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