He studied Botany at the University of Reading, and then pursued a Post Graduate Degree Taxonomy and Bisodiversity of plants at the University of Edinburgh.

He worked as a Horticulturalist for Glasgow City Council.

Fr Coyle is a Catholic Priest of the Diocese of Motherwell. He is the Coordinator of Spiritual and Pastoral Formation in the St Andrew's Foundation within the School of Education. 

He studied both Philoosphy and Theology at the Pontifical University of St Thomas Aquinas (Angeliucum) in Rome, gaining a STB in Sacred Theology.

 He was the assistant priest at Our Lady of Lourdes, East Kilbride, and He has served as Parish Priest in St Mark's and St Anthony's Parish, Rutherglen. 

He is currently the Bishop of Motherwell's representative on both the Interfaih and Ecumencial comission for the Bishops Conference of Scotland. 

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