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Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger
Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger (April 25, 1904-November 13, 1991) was a Canadian clergyman.
He was ordained in 1929 as a member of the Sulpician Order. In 1950, he was named Archbishop of Montreal and made a cardinal in 1953. He stepped down from his episcopal seat in 1967 to go to Africa to work as a missionary among lepers and handicapped children.
In 1968 he was made a Companion of the Order of Canada.
He was the 1979 recipient of the first Pearson Medal of Peace for his humanitarian work.
His brother Jules Léger was a career diplomat who eventually became Governor General of Canada in 1974.
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