Background
Adrian Doyle was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Leo and Gertrude (née O"Donnell) Doyle.
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Adrian Doyle was born in Hobart, Tasmania, to Leo and Gertrude (née O"Donnell) Doyle.
He attended Saint Mary"s College in Hobart, Sacred Heart College in New Town, and Saint Virgil"s College in Hobart before entering Corpus Christi College in Werribee, Victoria, in March 1955. He studied at the Collegio Propaganda Fide in Rome, where he was ordained as a priest by Grégoire-Pierre Cardinal Agagianian on 20 December 1961.
He was the tenth
He later earned a doctorate in canon law from the Pontifical Gregorian University in 1965. Doyle served on the Marriage Tribunal for the Hobart Archdiocese (1966–1998) He has been a judge on the Appeal Tribunal, President of the Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand, assistant priest at Invermay, Bellerive, and Street Mary"s Cathedral, and parish priest at Sandy Bay-Taroona (1974–1990). He was chaplain to the Italian community in Hobart from (1973–1998), director of Renew (1990–1992), dean of the southern region (1982–1989), chancellor of the Archdiocese (1988–1996), and vicar general of the Archdiocese (1996–1998).
On 10 November 1997, Doyle was appointed Coadjutor by Pope John Paul World War II He received his episcopal consecration on 6 February 1998 from Archbishop Eric Doctorate"Arcy.
He later succeeded Archbishop Doctorate"Arcy as the tenth upon the latter"s resignation on 26 July 1999.