Jeremiah Doyle

Stone commemorating foundation and completion of St. Carthage's Cathedral, Lismore, Australia Jeremiah Joseph Doyle (5 December 1849 – 4 June 1909), was an Irish born Catholic bishop, the bishop of Grafton, later renamed the diocese of Lismore in New South Wales, Australia.

Doyle was ordained a priest on 24 June 1874 for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Armidale, New South Wales, Australia.

Doyle was consecrated first Bishop of Grafton (now Lismore) by Cardinal Patrick Francis Moran in St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, on 28 August 1887.

He lobbied strongly for the building of a Cathedral at Lismore, New South Wales, which was eventually named St Carthage's (after a similarly dedicated Church of Ireland cathedral in Lismore, Ireland) and worked tirelessly to acquire the funds necessary for its construction. The design was by Herbert Wardell of the Sydney firm Wardell and Denning; the foundation stone was laid in 1892 but actual construction did not start until 1905, with the Cathedral dedicated in 1907. The final portion of the building, the bell tower, was not completed until 1911, after Doyle had died.

Doyle remained bishop until he died of cerebral haemorrhage in his house at Lismore, New South Wales, on 4 June 1909.

The diocese of Grafton was renamed to Lismore, and John Carroll became bishop of Lismore on 2 December 1909.