Robert Joseph Coyle | |
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Auxiliary Bishop of Rockville Centre Titular Bishop of Zabi | |
Archdiocese | New York |
Diocese | Rockville Centre |
Appointed | February 20, 2018 |
Installed | April 2, 2018 |
Other post(s) | Titular Bishop of Zabi |
Orders | |
Ordination | May 25, 1991 by John R. McGann |
Consecration | April 25, 2013 by Timothy Broglio, William Murphy, and Robert E. Guglielmone |
Personal details | |
Born | |
Denomination | Roman Catholic |
Previous post(s) | Auxiliary Bishop for the Military Services, USA |
Alma mater | Fordham University Seminary of the Immaculate Conception |
Motto | Lord bid me come to you |
Styles of Robert Joseph Coyle | |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
Robert Joseph Coyle (born September 23, 1964) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Rockville Centre in New York since 2018. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA from 2013 to 2018
Robert Coyle was born on September 23, 1964, in Brooklyn, New York to Robert and Kathryn Coyle. Robert Coyle attended Saint Edward the Confessor Elementary School, in Syosset, New York. In 1982, he completed high school at Saint Mary’s Boys High School in Manhasset, New York. [1]
Coyle then entered Fordham University in New York City, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics in 1986. Coyle then enlisted in the US Navy, where he was commissioned an ensign on June 3, 1988. He left the Navy in 1991, butt remained in the US Naval Reserve. That same year, deciding to become a priest, Coyle entered Seminary of the Immaculate Conception in Huntington, New York, receiving a Master of Divinity degree in 1991. [1]
Coyle was ordained a priest at Saint Agnes Cathedral in Rockville on May 25, 1991, for the Diocese of Rockville Centre by John R. McGann. [2] After his 1991 ordination, the diocese assigned Coyle as associate pastor at Saint Dominic Church in Oyster Bay, New York. Five years later, in 1996, the diocese transferred him to serve as associate pastor at Saint Patrick’s Church in Glen Cove, New York. [1]
The Navy called Coyle to active duty in the US Navy Chaplain Corps i n 1999. Over the next ten years, Coyle had the following postings in the Navy:
Coyle left active duty in the Navy in 2009 to become pastor at Corpus Christi Parish in Mineola, New York. He retired from the Navy Reserve in January 2013. [1]
On February 11, 2013, Coyle was named by Pope Benedict XVI as titular bishop of Zabi and auxiliary bishop of the Military Services, US. He was consecrated at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C. by Archbishop Timothy Broglio on April 25, 2013, with Bishops William Murphy and Robert E. Guglielmone acting as co-consecrators. [2]
On February 20, 2018, Coyle was appointed by Pope Francis as auxiliary bishop of Rockville Centre; he was installed on April 2, 2018. [3] [2] On May 6, 2018, Coyle became pastor of Good Shepherd Parish in Holbrook, New York.
The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA is a Latin Church jurisdiction of the Catholic Church for men and women serving in the United States Armed Forces and their dependents.
The Diocese of Rockville Centre is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory, or diocese, of the Catholic Church in the Long Island region of New York State in the United States. It is a suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the metropolitan Archdiocese of New York.
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