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Tuesday, February 20, 2018

Auxiliary Bishop Robert Coyle

The diocesan website news on the appointment of Bishop Robert Coyle as an auxiliary bishop of Rockville Centre provides this biography. The following paragraph is excerpted from the site of the Archdiocese for Military Services, USA.

Bishop Coyle was born September 23, 1964, in Brooklyn, N.Y. His parents, Robert and Kathryn Coyle, currently live in Cold Spring Hills, N.Y. The product of a life-long Catholic education, Bishop Coyle graduated from St. Edward Confessor Elementary School, Syosset, N.Y., in 1978; St. Mary’s Boys High School, Manhasset, N.Y., in 1982; Fordham University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics, in 1986; and Immaculate Conception Seminary, Huntington, N.Y., with a Master of Divinity in 1991 and a Master of Arts degree in Theology in 1998. He was ordained a priest on May 25, 1991 for the Diocese of Rockville Centre, N.Y. by Bishop John R. McGann at St. Agnes Cathedral.

His is Titular Bishop of Zabi, perhaps in modern Algeria.

The diocese of Rockville Centre apparently now has five Auxiliary Bishops, three active, two retired.

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In early May, 2018, Bishop Barres appointed him pastor in Holbrook, as announced on the diocesan website:

ROCKVILLE CENTRE, N.Y. – May 9, 2018 – The Most Reverend John O. Barres, Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Rockville Centre, made the following appointments which are effective June 27, 2018:
Most Rev. Robert J. Coyle 
Most Reverend Robert J. Coyle will serve as pastor of Church of the Good Shepherd, Holbrook.  In addition, Bishop Coyle will oversee the work of the Diocesan Pastoral Council. 
Bishop Coyle returned to serving the People of God in the Diocese of Rockville Centre on April 2, 2018.  Since then, he has already performed 15 confirmations across the diocese.  Previously, Bishop Coyle served as Episcopal Vicar for the Eastern Half of the US, Archdiocese for the Military Services.
“Bishop Coyle’s global leadership in the military in service to the men and women who defend our country is a great asset to the Church’s mission on Long Island and to parish evangelization at Good Shepherd parish,” said Bishop Barres.