"Liar," one placard said of the cardinal, the nation's senior Catholic prelate.

He has met Catholic prelates on trips to Missouri and Pennsylvania.

When he died in 1950 he was the longest-serving of all Canadian Catholic prelates.

Acclaimed internationally, the advertisement was taken off the air after an outcry by Catholic prelates.

However, a number of prominent Catholic prelates have acted as chaplains to the order.

Ordained in 1937, he followed the classic career pattern for old-school Catholic prelates.

While some Roman Catholic prelates tried to find compromises with fascism, several others spoke out against racism.

Having an independent fortune, he was the first Catholic prelate since the Revolution who was able to live in a manner becoming his station.

This put him in the forefront of Catholic prelates nationwide in dealing with sexual abuse by the clergy.

At the time of his death, he was the oldest Catholic prelate in the world.