Bishop Boyle - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Thu, 09 Jun 2016 01:04:19 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg Bishop Boyle - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 Bishop Boyle farewelled https://cathnews.co.nz/2016/06/10/bishop-boyle-farewelled/ Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:02:52 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=83609

Dunedin's St Joseph Cathedral was packed with people paying respects to Emeritus Bishop Len Boyle. Boyle, who was the fifth bishop of the diocese of Dunedin, died on June 1. A requiem mass - held at St Joseph Cathedral - featured Catholic bishops from around New Zealand. The Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, the former Read more

Bishop Boyle farewelled... Read more]]> Dunedin's St Joseph Cathedral was packed with people paying respects to Emeritus Bishop Len Boyle.

Boyle, who was the fifth bishop of the diocese of Dunedin, died on June 1.

A requiem mass - held at St Joseph Cathedral - featured Catholic bishops from around New Zealand.

The Deputy Prime Minister Bill English, the former Clutha-Southland MP, was also in attendance.

At his Requiem Mass, Bishop Colin Campbell, the present Bishop of Dunedin, told the parable of the prodigal son, one he said Bishop Boyle had chosen for the event.

The parable was a key to his life, and its teaching of repentance and the love of God was something he not only preached, but humbly lived by.

Another requiem took place in the Basilica in Invercargill on Thursday.

Bishop Boyle was buried at the Wreys Bush cemetery, just south of Nightcaps on Thursday afternoon.

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Bishop Boyle farewelled]]> 83609 Bishop Boyle thinks his biography "too flattering" https://cathnews.co.nz/2012/05/15/bishop-boyle-thinks-his-biography-too-flattering/ Mon, 14 May 2012 19:30:57 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=25293

A biography of Bishop Boyle, emeritus bishop of Dunedin, has just been launched, with the title "The Good Shepherd". Before he began training for the priesthood Leonard Boyle was a farmer and shearer. Bishop Boyle says that it is too flattering and it included all the good but not the bad. The bishop was interviewed Read more

Bishop Boyle thinks his biography "too flattering"... Read more]]> A biography of Bishop Boyle, emeritus bishop of Dunedin, has just been launched, with the title "The Good Shepherd". Before he began training for the priesthood Leonard Boyle was a farmer and shearer.

Bishop Boyle says that it is too flattering and it included all the good but not the bad.

The bishop was interviewed in Invercargill where he was attending a family reunion to mark the 150th anniversary of his Irish ancestor John Boyle. He said he knows Invercargill well. "There is a real community spirit in this city, it's a nice size that encourages involvement," he said.

Bishop Boyle was born at Nightcaps, a coal-mining town in Southland on November 16, 1930. His parents owned hotels in Nightcaps and Winton. He was the sixth child to be born among seven boys and two girls.

Bishop Boyle decided to become a priest at the age of about 22 or 23. Up until then he was farming and shearing sheep in the Winton area. From the age of about six or seven he wanted to be a farmer. As an adult he actually owned a farm because he thought it was to be his life.

From 1961 until 1983 Father Len Boyle worked in various parishes in Otago and Southland including Georgetown, South Dunedin and Invercargill. He was ordained bishop on May 3, 1983. Two years later, on August 19 1985, following the death of Bishop John Kavanagh, Bishop Boyle was installed as Bishop of Dunedin. On May 24, 2004 Bishop Boyle resigned after Father Campbell was appointed Bishop of Dunedin by the Holy See.

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