John Jarlath Dooley

John Jarlath Dooley (6 July 1906 – 18 September 1997) was an Irish prelate of the Catholic Church who worked in the diplomatic service of the Holy See and in the Roman Curia.

Biography John Jarlath Dooley was born in Kilmaine, Ireland, on 6 July 1906. He was ordained a priest of the Missionary Society of St. Columban on 20 December 1931. He was appointed Procurator General of the Columbans in 1936.

In 1950, Dooley was assigned as Regent of the Apostolic Delegation to Indochina. On 18 October 1951, Pope Pius XII named him a titular archbishop and Apostolic Delegate to Indochina. He received his episcopal consecration from Archbishop Egidio Vagnozzi on 21 December 1951. Taking on the role during the hardships of the First Indochina War, his area covered four countries: Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand. He moved the office of the Apostolic Delegation from Hue to Hanoi, onto the property of the Episcopal See of Hanoi.

As the Geneva Accords between France and the Viet Minh divided Vietnam in 1954, he remained in Hanoi along with his secretaries, Terence O'Driscoll, S.S.C., and Dieudonné Bourguignon, They were confined to the city of Hanoi, and the tension with the government led to Dooley's illness.

In 1961, he was assigned to the Secretariat of State and later took part in the Second Vatican Council.