Philip Boyce
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The Most Reverend Bishop Philip Boyce OCD |
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| Bishop of Raphoe | |
| Church | Catholic Church |
| See | Raphoe |
| In office | 1 October 1995- 25 January 2015 |
| Predecessor | Bishop Séamus Hegarty |
| Successor | Vacant |
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| Born |
25 January 1940 Downings, Co. Donegal |
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Styles of Philip Boyce |
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | His Lordship |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
| Posthumous style | not applicable |
Philip Boyce, OCD (born 25 January 1940), was consecrated and installed as the Catholic Bishop of Raphoe on 1 October 1995. He presides over the Diocese of Raphoe in County Donegal, Ireland.
Boyce was born in Derry, Northern Ireland and grew up in Downings, a village on the Rosguill Peninsula of north County Donegal. He was educated at Derryhassen school in Meevagh parish and at Castlemartyr College, County Cork. He joined the noviciate of the Discalced Carmelites in Loughrea, County Galway, making his first profession in 1959. Having completed philosophical studies in Dublin, he studied theology at the Teresianum in Rome, where he was ordained priest on 17 April 1966. He received a doctorate in theology (D.D.) in 1977 with a dissertation on the spirituality of John Henry Cardinal Newman.
During his twenty years on the teaching staff of the Pontifical Theological Faculty of the Carmelites in Rome, he taught spirituality and dogmatic theology, and for many years was engaged in the work of formation of students preparing for the priesthood or doing postgraduate studies.
Boyce was ordained a priest on 17 April 1966 for the Order of Discalced Carmelites and was appointed Bishop of Raphoe on 29 June 1995, and consecrated and installed on 1 October 1995. The principal consecrator was Jorge María Cardinal Mejía. Both Emanuele Gerada, titular Archbishop of Nomentum, the apostolic nuncio to Ireland at the time, and Séamus Hegarty, Bishop of Derry (and formerly Bishop of Raphoe), served as principal co-consecrators. In May 1999 Pope John Paul II appointed him a member of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.
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