Charles-Hughes Gauthier (November 13, 1843 - January 19, 1922) was a Canadian

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Priest who served as the

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and

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. Born in Alexandria, Upper Canada, he was of Scottish and French Canadian parentage. He graduated from Regiopolis College with high honours in 1863 and later studied theology at the Grand Seminaire, in Montreal. Gauthier was ordained a priest in 1867, and in 1898 was ordained as the archbishop of Kingston. He was the Archbishop of Ottawa and the Chancellor of the

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from 1911 until his death in 1922.

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