Patrick O'Boyle

Patrick Aloysius Cardinal O'Boyle ( born July 18, 1896 in Scranton, USA; † August 10, 1987 in Washington) was Archbishop of Washington.

Life

Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle received after his training in Scranton and New York on 21 May 1921, the sacrament of Holy Orders and worked until 1926 as a parish pastor in the Archdiocese of New York. From 1932 to 1936 he was a teacher at a school for social work, from 1936 to 1943, he served as Director of the Mission of the Immaculate Virgin on Staten Iceland. In 1941 he received the appointment to the secret chamberlain of His Holiness, 1944, the pontifical house prelates. From 1943 to 1947 he was responsible for the management of Caritas in the Archdiocese of New York.

1947 Pope Pius XII appointed him. Archbishop of Washington. The bishop He was ordained on January 14, 1948 by the Archbishop of New York, Francis Cardinal Spellman. Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle took part in the years 1962-1965 at the Second Vatican Council. On August 28, 1963, he said the opening prayer of the rally at the March on Washington for work and freedom, on the Martin Luther King 's speech I Have a Dream held.

Pope Paul VI. took him in 1967 as a cardinal priest with the pro hac vice levied for the titular church of San Nicola in Carcere title diakonia in the College of Cardinals to. From the direction of the Archdiocese of Washington, he joined in 1973 for reasons of age. He died on August 10, 1987 in Washington, and was buried in the local cathedral.