Episcopal Career
On March 9, 1923, Rouleau was appointed the second Bishop of Valleyfield by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 22 from Archbishop Pietro di Maria, with Bishops Félix Couturier, OP, and Georges Gauthier serving as co-consecrators.
Rouleau was later named the seventh Archbishop of Quebec on July 9, 1926. Pius XI created him Cardinal Priest of San Pietro in Montorio in the consistory of December 19, 1927. He was the third Canadian raised to the College of Cardinals, after Elzéar-Alexandre Taschereau and Louis Nazaire Bégin. In 1930, he was dangerously bruised and cut when a blowout crashed his motor into a ditch near Levis; he received Extreme Unction but later convalesced.
Rouleau died from angina pectoris in his episcopal residence, at age 65. He is buried at Notre-Dame de Québec Cathedral.
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