Source: Thomas Aquinas College

It has certainly been a busy morning on the Catholic side of the blogosphere!! This morning, the musings about Cardinal Marc Ouellet heading to Rome as the Prefect for the Congregation for Bishops and head of the Commission for Latin America were confirmed when he was appointed to those positions by Benedict XVI. For the first time, the most important posts in the Roman Curia (Vatican Secretary of State, Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and the Congregation for Bishops) are headed by two North Americans. [The CDF is headed by Cardinal Levada.]

Cardinal Ouellet has served as the Archbishop of Quebec since November of 2002, when he was appointed to the post by Pope John Paul II. During his days as a student, Ouellet studied philosophy at the Ecole Normale d’Amos, earning a Bachelor of pedagogy from Laval University in 1964. For his theological studies, the Cardinal attended the Grand Seminary of Montreal, receiving a degree in theology from the University of Montreal. He was ordained to the priesthood for the Diocese of Amos on May 25, 1968.

Since his ordination to the Holy Priesthood, Ouellet has attended various other universities, obtaining degrees in philosophy from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) and a doctorate in dogmatic theology at the Gregorian University.