J. Kevin Boland

John Kevin Boland ( born April 25, 1935 in Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland) is Bishop Emeritus of Savannah.

Life

John Kevin Boland, one of four brothers, received on 14 June 1959, the ordination to the priesthood for the Diocese of Savannah.

Pope John Paul II appointed him on February 7, 1995 Bishop of Savannah. The Archbishop of Atlanta, John Francis Donoghue, gave him on 18 April of the same year the episcopal ordination; Were co-consecrators Raymond James Boland, Bishop of Kansas City -Saint Joseph, and Raymond William Lessard, Bishop Emeritus of Savannah.

On July 19, 2011, Pope Benedict XVI. its age-related resignation.

His older brother was Raymond James Boland, retired bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City -Saint Joseph.