Gerald Emmett Carter

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Styles of
Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter
Reference style His Eminence
Spoken style Your Eminence
Informal style Cardinal
See Toronto


Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter, CC (March 1, 1912 - April 6, 2003) was the Archbishop of Toronto.

Born in Montreal, Quebec, he was ordained as a priest in Montreal in 1937. He was Bishop of London, Ontario from 1964 to 1978, when he was appointed Archbishop of Toronto. He retired in 1990 and was succeeded by Aloysius Matthew Cardinal Ambrozic.

In 1982 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada. The library at King's University College at the University of Western Ontario in London is named after him, as is Cardinal Carter Catholic High School in Aurora, Ontario.

Cardinal Carter died in Toronto and is buried at the Bishops’ Mausoleum at Holy Cross Cemetery north of Toronto.

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Religious titles
Preceded by
John Christopher Cody		 Bishop of London
1964–1978		 Succeeded by
John Michael Sherlock
Preceded by
Philip Francis Pocock		 Archbishop of Toronto
1978–1990		 Succeeded by
Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic