Edward Michael Joyce was the fourth Roman Catholic bishop of Christchurch, New Zealand.
16 Facts About Edward Joyce
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Edward Joyce was appointed by Pope Pius XII on 18 April 1950 and died in office on 28 January 1964.
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Edward Joyce was the first priest of the Christchurch diocese to be made a bishop.
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Edward Joyce trained for the priesthood at Holy Cross College, Mosgiel.
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Edward Joyce was ordained priest on 31 October 1930 in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch by his uncle James Byrne, the 1st Catholic Bishop of Toowoomba.
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Edward Joyce was the chaplain at Sacred Heart College, then located in Ponsonby.
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Edward Joyce returned to Christchurch in 1934 to be an assistant priest at Addington and then at Riccarton.
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In 1941 Edward Joyce was appointed chaplain to the New Zealand Military Forces and served with New Zealand troops in Tonga and Fiji.
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Edward Joyce represented Bishop Lyons for three years on the Labour Department immigration committee.
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Edward Joyce was very involved during the Ballantyne's fire tragedy of 1947 and represented Bishop Lyons at the mass funeral for the victims.
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Edward Joyce was appointed Bishop of Christchurch on 18 April 1950 and was consecrated in the Cathedral on 16 July 1950 by Archbishop McKeefry and Bishops Liston and Kavanagh.
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Edward Joyce's appointment was unusual among New Zealand bishops at that time in that he had no training in Rome or elsewhere overseas.
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Bishop Edward Joyce opened two new secondary schools, Cottesmore College and St Thomas of Canterbury College.
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Edward Joyce founded the Mary Potter Hospice for the Dying, Rochester Hall and he encouraged the setting up of an outpatients psychiatric clinic at Calvary Hospital.
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Edward Joyce attended the first two sessions of the Second Vatican Council.
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Edward Joyce was interred in the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament, Christchurch at the foot of the altar of Saint Joseph.