The Monsignor Eugene Boyle Personal Papers is comprised of materials Father Boyle created and kept about his life as an ordained Roman Catholic priest; an instructor of seminarian education; his economic, racial, and social justice advocacy work; and his run for political office. The bulk of the collection spans Father Boyle's clerical life and ministerial activities as a priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1946 to 1976, and particularly during the period when he served as director of the Archdiocese's Commission on Social Justice from 1964 to 1972. The collection also includes a limited amount of materials from when he served in the Diocese of San Jose from 1981 until his death in 2016.

Monsignor (Father) Eugene "Gene" Boyle was the leading social activist in the Archdiocese of San Francisco during the 1960s and 1970s. Born in 1921, and raised in San Francisco, California, Father Boyle entered the Saint Joseph minor seminary in Mountainview at the age of 14, and completed his seminarian studies at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park before finally becoming an ordained Roman Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of San Francisco in 1946.

26.73 Cubic Feet ; 24 records center boxes, 2 document boxes; and 2 flat boxes

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