Bishop Joseph O ' Sullivan (1931 - 1944) Joseph was a native of Hamilton, Ontario , bom in 1886. He graduated from St. Jerome's College in Kitchener and studied at the Grand Seminary of Montreal. In 1911 he was ordained in St. Mary's Cathedral, Hamilton for that diocese. Father O'Sullivan was curate at the cathedral, then pastor there, as well as Chancellor of the diocese. In 1925 he became rector of St. Augustine's Seminary, Toronto and six years later he was named Bishop of Charlottetown and was consecrated at St. Mary's Cathedral, Hamilton in 1 931. On Bishop O'Sullivan inaugurated the Eucharistic Congresses and began the Christian Doctrine examinations throughout the diocese. University grew in stature and in 1941 began granting its own degrees. Vocations to the priesthood and religious life blossomed during his years here which also coincided with the Depression and the dreadful Second World War. In 1944 Bishop O'Sullivan was appointed Archbishop of Kingston , Ontario and was installed there on April 25. A highlight of his Kingston years was his participation in the sessions of the Second Vatican Council in the mid 1960s. Archbishop O'Sullivan retired in 1966 and died in Kingston on June 6, 1972. Funeral Mass was celebrated at St. Mary's Cathedral there with burial in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery , Hamilton. Bishop James Boyle (1944 - 1954) James was born at Merland ( Parish ), Nova Scotia in 1885. After graduating from St. F.X. University, Antigonish, he studied for a year at Louvain University in Belgium, then for three years in Rome where he was ordained in 1913. Our Bishops ♦ 37