Father Joseph Doyle, S.S.J., Baltimore native who led New Orleans school, dies at 82 November 4, 2021By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Local News, News, Obituaries A funeral Mass for Josephite Father Joseph Doyle will be offered Nov. 5 at Corpus Christi/Epiphany Catholic Church in New Orleans. Father Doyle, a Baltimore native, died Nov. 2 after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He was 82. Father Doyle was inspired to become a Josephite while he was a student at Immaculate Conception School in Towson, where he read articles in The Josephite Harvest about the Baltimore-based religious society’s ministry in the African-American community. He entered the Josephite minor seminary in New York in 1961. After studying at St. Joseph Seminary in Washington, D.C., he was ordained at Holy Comforter/St. Cyprian Church in Washington by Archbishop Patrick O’ Boyle on June 1, 1968. Father Doyle was the second president of St. Augustine High School in New Orleans from 1992 to 2010 and later worked extensively with young men in formation to become Josephite priests and brothers. He was the author of “When Jesus was Twelve,” a work of historical fiction about the Holy Family. Father Doyle also ministered in Mississippi, Alabama and Texas. Father Doyle had a master’s degree in theology from St. Joseph Seminary, Washington, D.C. and a doctorate in ministry from Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University and an honorary doctor of letters from Wheeling Jesuit University. Also see Deacon Coster, who served two decades in Westminster, dies at 91 Sister Peggy Mathewson, nursing supervisor for Sisters of Bon Secours, dies at age 82 Sister Margaret McCabe, mental health advocate, dies at 80 Sister Anne Marie Mack, past president of the Sisters of Bon Secours USA, dies at 76 Father Byron, former economics professor at Loyola University Maryland, recalled as ‘visionary leader’ Christian Brother J. Paul Joslin, former Calvert Hall teacher, dies at 77 Copyright © 2021 Catholic Review Media Print
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