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Charles-Hugues Gauthier

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His Excellency
Charles-Hugues Gauthier
Archbishop of Ottawa
File:Monseigneur Gauthier, Archeveque d'Ottawa (HS85-10-32316A).jpg
Church Roman Catholic
Archdiocese Ottawa
Installed 1911
Term ended 1922
Predecessor Joseph-Thomas Duhamel
Successor Joseph-Médard Émard
Personal details
Born November 13, 1843
Alexandria, Upper Canada
Died January 19, 1922 (aged 78)
Ottawa, Ontario

Charles-Hughes Gauthier (November 13, 1843 - January 19, 1922) was a Canadian Roman Catholic Priest who served as the Archbishop of Kingston and Ottawa.

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.[1] 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 University of Ottawa from 1911 until his death in 1922.[2]

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