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ABOUT US
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Quick Facts
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1957-1960 taught latin @ of
St. Augustine’s Seminary
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1971-76 Dean of
St. Augustine’s Seminary
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Ordained Auxiliary Bishop of
Toronto on May 27, 1976
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Coadjutor Archbishop on May
22, 1986
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Became Archbishop of Toronto
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March 17, 1990
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Named Cardinal by Pope John
Paul II on 18 January 1998 and invested on 21 February 1998
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Celebrated his Golden Jubilee
as a priest on 8 June 2005
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Celebrated 30 years as
Bishop, May 27, 2006.
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His Eminence Aloysius Cardinal Ambrozic
Archbishop
Emeritus of Toronto
Biography :: Letters,
Homilies, Statements :: Articles
:: Tribute Page
 Cardinal Ambrozic was born in Gaberje, Slovenia, the
second of the seven children of Aloysius Ambrozic and his wife, Helen
Pecar. He attended elementary school in Dobrova and highschool in
Ljubljana. In May, 1945, the entire family fled to Austria, where they
lived in the displaced persons' camps at Vetrinj,Peggez and Spittal an der
Drau. While in these camps, he completed his high school education.
In September of 1948 the family emigrated to Canada
and settled near Toronto. Shortly afterwards, he entered St. Augustine's
Seminary to study philosophy and theology. On June 4, 1955, he was ordained
a priest of the Archdiocese of Toronto by His Eminence, James C. Cardinal
McGuigan.
The first year of his priesthood he served as Curate
at St. Teresa's Parish in Port Colborne, Ontario. He then taught Latin for
a year at St. Augustine's Seminary, Toronto. The years 1957-1960 were
devoted to postgraduate studies in Rome, where he received a Licentiate in
Theology at the Angelicum and a Licentiate in Sacred Scripture at the
Pontifical Biblical Institute.
Returning to Toronto, he taught scripture at St.
Augustine's Seminary from 1960-67. In 1967 he began further studies in
Germany, obtaining a Doctorate in Theology from the University of Würzburg
in 1970. From 1970-76 he was professor of New Testament exegesis at the
Toronto School of Theology, serving also as Dean of Studies at St.
Augustine's Seminary from 1971-76. From 1971-75 he was a member of the
Archdiocesan Senate of Priests.
He was ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Toronto on May
27, 1976. His responsibilities within the Archdiocese included pastoral
care of the Central Region and of the ethnic communities. During the school
year 1984-85 he made a pastoral visitation to all 43 of the Catholic high
schools in the Archdiocese in order to strengthen and support the religious
education programs. He was a member of the Christian Education Commission
of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops, and was active in the
evision of the Canadian Catechism. He was elected as one of four Bishops to
represent Canada at the 1990 Synod on the Formation of Priests. He was
appointed Coadjutor Archbishop on May 22, 1986. He became Archbishop of
Toronto on March 17, 1990. A member of the Theology Commission, he also
served as a member of the Pastoral Team of the Canadian Conference of Catholic
Bishops, and as Chairman of the Commission for Migrants.
He was appointed to the Pontifical Council for the Pastoral Care of
Migrants and Itinerant People in June, 1990 to the Congregation for Clergy
in February, 1991 to the Pontifical Council for Culture in 1993, and to the
Congregation for Divine Worship and Discipline of Sacraments in 1999. He
was appointed by the Holy See as one of the Canadian delegates to the 1994
Synod on the Consecrated Life.
He was named Cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 18 January 1998 and invested
on 21 February 1998. He has published The Hidden Kingdom: A
Redaction-Critical Study of the References to the Kingdom of God in Mark's
Gospel (Washington, D.C., 1972), Remarks on the Canadian Catechism
(Toronto, 1974), Oce, posveceno bodi tvoje ime (Tinje, Austria, 1980), Oce,
zgodi se tvoja volja (Ljubljana , 1996), and many articles of both a
professional and a popular nature. His articles
have been published regularly in The Catholic Register.
Explanation of the Coat of Arms for
His Eminence, Aloysius Cardinal
Ambrozic
 “Azure a lion rampant guardant winged and
with a Nimbus about the Head Or langued and armed Gules; in a bas Crescent
compony counter compony God and Gules; all within a Bordure per pale that
to the dexter parted wavy Gules and Or and that to the sinister parted
similarly Azure and Gold”.
The principal charge of the shield is the gold winged
lion, symbolizing the Risen Lord. The lion is also symbolic of Saint Mark
in whose Gospel the Cardinal did his doctoral studies. In base the crescent
chequy is taken from the arms of the former duchy of Carniola, now part of
Slovenia, where the Cardinal was born.
The Cardinal’s motto, Jesus est Dominus, (Jesus is Lord) is one of the
earliest
professions of faith in Jesus Christ.
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