Paul-Émile Cardinal Léger
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Image:Cardina Leger.jpg 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. In 1985, he was made a Grand Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
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.
Many Catholic schools at the elementary and secondary level in Canada are named for him.
He was the last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope Pius XII.
