Former Mercy chaplain dies at 77

An 11 a.m. funeral Mass for Jesuit Father James F. Joyce, a former chaplain at Mercy Medical Center in Baltimore from 2012 to 2016, will be offered July 27 at Fordham University Church in New York.

Father Joyce died July 21. He was 77.

Born in Brooklyn, N.Y., Father Joyce entered the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) right after high school in 1963. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1975. Assignments outside the Archdiocese of Baltimore included ministry in New York, New Jersey, Ireland, Africa and Jamaica. He held a master’s degree in American Studies from Seton Hall University in New Jersey.

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