Father Joseph Doyle, S.S.J., Baltimore native who led New Orleans school, dies at 82

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.

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