The Most Reverend Adrian Leo Doyle AM DD DCL |
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Archbishop of Hobart | |
See | Hobart |
Installed | 26 August 1999 |
Term ended | 19 July 2013 |
Predecessor | Eric D'Arcy |
Successor | Julian Porteous |
Other posts | Coadjutor Archbishop of Hobart (1998-1999) |
Orders | |
Ordination | 20 December 1961 |
Consecration | 6 February 1998 |
Personal details | |
Born |
Hobart, Tasmania |
16 November 1936
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Styles of Adrian Doyle |
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Reference style | The Most Reverend |
Spoken style | Your Grace |
Religious style | Archbishop |
Posthumous style | not applicable |
Adrian Leo Doyle AM (born 16 November 1936) is an Australian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He was the tenth Archbishop of Hobart.
Adrian Doyle was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Leo and Gertrude (née O'Donnell) Doyle. He attended St. Mary's College in Hobart, Sacred Heart College in New Town, and St. Virgil's College in Hobart before entering Corpus Christi College in Werribee, Victoria, in March 1955. He studied at the Collegio Propaganda Fide in Rome, where he was ordained as a priest by Grégoire-Pierre Cardinal Agagianian on 20 December 1961. He later earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965.
Doyle served on the Marriage Tribunal for the Hobart Archdiocese (1966–1998) He has been a judge on the Appeal Tribunal, President of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand, assistant priest at Invermay, Bellerive, and St Mary's Cathedral, and parish priest at Sandy Bay-Taroona (1974–1990).