Maurice Couture

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His Excellency Maurice Couture
Archbishop Emeritus of Quebec Primate Emeritus of Canada
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	Quebec
Installed	1990
Term ended	2002
Predecessor	Louis-Albert Vachon
Successor	Marc Ouellet
Personal details
Born	(1926-11-03) November 3, 1926 Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec

Maurice Couture, GOQ (born November 3, 1926) is a Canadian Archbishop Emeritus and the former Archbishop of Québec.

Born in Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec, he was ordained a priest in 1951. He was appointed Archbishop of Quebec in 1990 and retired in 2002. As Archbishop, Couture refrained from taking a strong stance on issues such as abortion, where most Quebec Catholics disagree with their church. While his six immediate predecessors and his successor all received the red hat, Couture was not made a Cardinal, presumably because he was considered too Liberal.

In 2003, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.

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Catholic Hierarchy profile

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Persondata
Name	Couture, Maurice
Alternative names
Short description	Archbishop of Quebec
Date of birth	November 3, 1926
Place of birth	Saint-Pierre-de-Broughton, Quebec
Date of death
Place of death

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