John Jarlath Dooley was born in
Kilmaine, Ireland, on 6 July 1906. He was ordained a priest of the
Missionary Society of St. Columban on 20 December 1931. He was appointed Procurator General of the Columbans in 1936. In 1950, Dooley was assigned as Regent of the Apostolic Delegation to Indochina. On 18 October 1951,
Pope Pius XII named him a titular archbishop and
Apostolic Delegate to Indochina. He received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop
Egidio Vagnozzi on 21 December 1951. Taking on the role during the hardships of the
First Indochina War, his area covered four countries: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. He moved the office of the Apostolic Delegation from Hue to Hanoi, onto the property of the
Episcopal See of Hanoi. As the
Geneva Accords between
France and the
Viet Minh divided Vietnam in 1954, he remained in Hanoi along with his secretaries, Terence O'Driscoll, S.S.C., and
Dieudonné Bourguignon, They were confined to the city of Hanoi, and the tension with the government led to Dooley's illness. In 1961, he was assigned to the
Secretariat of State and later took part in the Second Vatican Council. ==References==