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===Early life and ordination===
[[File:Acte de baptême Lionel Groulx 13 janvier 1878 Vaudreuil.jpg|thumb|Birth and baptismal certificate of Lionel Groulx, 13 January 1878, église Saint-Michel in Vaudreuil (Québec).]]
Lionel Groulx, né Joseph Adolphe Lyonel Groulx, was the son of Léon Groulx (1837–1878), a farmer, a lumberjack and direct descendant<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.vigile.net/groulx/ancetre.html|title=L. Groulx, Notre maître, le passé, 1924, pp. 71-76.|access-date=2012-10-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120310123910/http://archives.vigile.net/groulx/ancetre.html|archive-date=10 March 2012|df=dmy-all}}</ref> of [[New France]] pioneer [[Coulée Grou|Jean Grou]], and Philomène Salomé Pilon (1849–1943). Groulx was born and died at [[Vaudreuil-Dorion, Quebec|Vaudreuil, Quebec]]. After his seminary training and studies in Europe, he taught at [[Collège de Valleyfield|Valleyfield College]] in [[Salaberry-de-Valleyfield]], and then the [[Université de Montréal]]. In 1917 he co-founded a monthly journal called ''[[L'Action nationale|Action Française]]'', becoming its editor in 1920.

He was [[Ordination|ordained]] to the [[Priesthood in the Catholic Church|priesthood]] on 28 June 1903.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Groulx Lionel |url=https://agora.qc.ca/dossiers/lionel_groulx |access-date=2023-01-28 |website=agora.qc.ca |language=fr}}</ref>