AMBROZIC, His Emminence Aloysius   



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AMBROZIC, His Emminence Aloysius
 
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Azure a lion rampant guardant winged and with a nimbus about the head Or armed and langued Gules; in base a crescent compony counter compony of the second and of the third; within a bordure wavy Or; all within a bordure per pale Gules and Azure.
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JESUS EST DOMENUS (Jesus is Lord)
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Archdiocese of Toronto
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 high school in Ljubljana. 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. He became Archbishop of Toronto on March 17, 1990. He was named Cardinal by Pope John Paul II on 18 January 1998 and invested on 21 February 1998.
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