Monsignor Thomas Doyle, who served as a priest for 59 years, much of that time for St. James the Less Catholic Church in La Crescenta, passed away on Aug. 5. He was 83 years old.
The cause of death was not made public.
During the last seven years, Doyle lived at St. James, where he continued to assist the clergy with masses and confessions.
Danette Erickson, who serves on the Crescenta Valley Town Council and has been a parishioner of the church for decades, said she was grateful to attend one of Doyle’s last masses during a recent week in July.
“He was a quiet saint who walked among us and we will miss him very much,” she said.
Doyle was born in 1930, ordained at age 24 in 1954 and began his ministry at St. James in the 1980s.
Before arriving at St. James, Doyle served a pastor for churches in Wilmington, Winnetka, San Gabriel and Norwalk, according to the Los Angeles Archdiocese. He retired in 1998.