Aloysius Ambrozic
Canadian Roman-Catholic priest cardinal (1930–2011)
Aloysius Matthew Ambrozic (born Alojzij Matej Ambrožič; January 27, 1930 – August 26, 2011) was a Slovene Canadian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1990 to 2007. He was made a cardinal in 1998.
Biography
Ambrozic was born near Gabrje in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (modern-day Slovenia) as Alojzij Matej Ambrožič, one of seven children of Alojzij "Lojze" Ambrožič and Helena Pečar. In May 1945, he and his family fled to Austria, after which he completed high school in Ljubljana and various refugee camps (Vetrinj, Peggez and Spittal an der Drau). The family moved to Canada in September 1948, where he studied at St. Augustine's Seminary in Toronto and was ordained a priest on 4 June 1955. He served first in Port Colborne, Ontario, and later taught at St. Augustine's.
Ambrozic studied theology in Rome and earned a degree from the Angelicum. On his return to Canada, he taught Scripture at St Augustine's Seminary from 1960 to 1967.
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