Early life Hugh Boyle was born on October 8, 1873, in
Johnstown,
Pennsylvania, one of nine children of Charles and Anna (née Keelan) Boyle. His father was an
Irish immigrant who worked as a
coal miner. He received his early education at local
parochial schools, and enrolled at
St. Vincent College in
Latrobe at age 14. During the 1889
Johnstown Flood, his father and most of his siblings drowned; only his mother and one brother survived. He began his studies for the
priesthood at
St. Vincent Seminary, also in Latrobe, in 1891. After his ordination, the diocese assigned Boyle as a
curate at St. Aloysius Parish in
Wilmerding, Pennsylvania, where he remained for five years. He received his
episcopal consecration at Saint Paul Cathedral on June 29, 1921, from Canevin, with Bishops
Philip R. McDevitt and
John McCort serving as
co-consecrators. In 1941, Boyels established the Catholic Workers' School in Pittsburgh. ==References==