William Aquin Carew (October 23, 1922 – May 8, 2012) was a Canadian

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of the

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who worked in the diplomatic service of the

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from 1953 to 1997.

Biography

Carew was born in St. John's,

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on October 23, 1922. He attended St. Bonaventure's College from 1937 to 1940 and then St. Paul's Seminary at the

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. He ordained a priest on June 15, 1947. He earned a doctorate in canon law from St. Paul's in 1950, choosing as his dissertation topic "The Apostolic Delegate". From 1947 to 1950, he was secretary to the Apostolic Nuncio to Canada, Archbishop

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. He attended the

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from 1950 to 1952 and then worked in Rome at the Secretariat of State from 1953 to 1969, where from 1963 to 1969 he headed the English-language section. During Pope Paul's visit to the Holy Land in 1964, Carew served as interpreter between the Pope and Orthodox Patriarch

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. Carew was appointed titular bishop of the Telde as well as

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Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the ...

and

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on November 27, 1969, and consecrated a bishop on January 6, 1970.

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sent him to Bangladesh in 1972 with the title of extraordinary envoy. He was appointed

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and

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to Jerusalem and Palestine on May 13, 1974. He also held the title Apostolic Visitor to Greece. Carew was appointed Apostolic Pro-Nuncio to Japan on August 30, 1983, and he retired from that post on November 11, 1997, upon the appointment of his successor. He died in St. John's on May 8, 2012.

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Catholic-Hierarchy: Archbishop William Aquin Carew
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