Bishop Hugh Boyle, DD (13 December 1897 – 4 December 1986) was an Irish-born Catholic priest who served as a bishop in South Africa.

Biography

Boyle was born in

Dunloy Dunloy () is a village and townland in County Antrim, Northern Ireland. It is located north of Ballymena and north-west is Ballymoney. It is located in the civil parishes in Ireland, civil parish of Finvoy, in the former Barony (Ireland), bar ...

County Antrim County Antrim (named after the town of Antrim, County Antrim, Antrim, ) is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, located within the historic Provinces of Ireland, province of Ulster. Adjoined to the north-east shore of Lough Neagh, the c ...

, Ireland. After working in Belfast in 1914 he resumed his education at

Mungret College Mungret College was a Jesuit apostolic school and a lay secondary school near Limerick, Ireland. Located on the western outskirts of the modern-day suburban town of Raheen, it was operational from 1882 until 1974 when it closed as a school fo ...

in Limerick. In 1920 he went to

Propaganda College The Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples (CEP; ) was a congregation (Roman Curia), congregation of the Roman Curia of the Catholic Church in Rome, responsible for Catholic missions, missionary work and related activities. It is also kn ...

, Rome, earning a Doctorate in Theology in 1924 He was ordained a priest in Rome in 1923,Bishop Hugh Boyle
Catholic Hierarchy by Cardinal Van Rossum. He moved to

Port Elizabeth, South Africa Gqeberha ( , ), formerly named Port Elizabeth, and colloquially referred to as P.E., is a major seaport and the most populous city in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. It is the seat of the Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan Municipal ...

in 1924, and worked as assistant editor of ''The Southern Cross''. Msgr Boyle served as Vicar Apostolic to Diocese of Port Elizabeth in 1948. He served as

titular bishop A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese. By definition, a bishop is an "overseer" of a community of the faithful, so when a priest is ordained a bishop, the tradition of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox an ...

Bagai Bagai was a Roman–Berber city in the province of Africa Proconsularis. It must have been of some reasonable size, as it was also the seat of an ancient Catholic bishopric. The ancient city has been identified with ruins at Ksar-Bagaï outsid ...

from 1948 to 1951. Dr Boyle was appointed Bishop of Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 11 January 1951 and translated to the See of Johannesburg on 18 July 1954. He resigned as Bishop on 2 May 1976. Bishop Boyle died on 12 December 1986 at Holy Cross Old Age Home, Lady Selbourne,

Pretoria Pretoria ( ; ) is the Capital of South Africa, administrative capital of South Africa, serving as the seat of the Executive (government), executive branch of government, and as the host to all foreign embassies to the country. Pretoria strad ...

.Johannesburg Diocese
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Boyle, Hugh 1897 births 1986 deaths Christian clergy from County Antrim Irish expatriate Roman Catholic bishops 20th-century Roman Catholic bishops in South Africa Roman Catholic bishops of Johannesburg Roman Catholic bishops of Port Elizabeth