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Archbishop Christopher Coyne

   Archbishop Coyne has earned a BBA from University of Massachusetts Lowell. Master of Divinity from St. John's Seminary in Boston.
   On June 7, 1986, Coyne was ordained a priest for Archdiocese of Boston by Cardinal Bernard Law, studied at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in Rome where he earned his Licentiate in Sacred Theology and his Doctor of Sacred Liturgy degree.
   He returned to Boston to become director of the pre-theology program at St. John's Seminary. In 2004, he became an adjunct faculty member there.
   He became director for the archdiocesan Office of Worship in 2000.
   In 2002, Coyne became cabinet secretary for communications and archdiocesan spokesman in the middle of the clerical sex abuse scandal in the archdiocese.
   In January 2011, Pope Benedict XVI named him as an auxiliary bishop of Indianapolis. Coyne was the first auxiliary bishop in the archdiocese since 1933.
   In 2014, Coyne was elected chair of the Committee on Communication of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).
   He has served as an auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Indianapolis from 2011 to 2015…..and as Bishop of Burlington from 2015 to 2023.
   On June 26, 2023, Pope Francis named Coyne as coadjutor archbishop of Hartford in Connecticut.