J. Kevin Boland (born April 25, 1935) is an Irish-American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, and he was bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah in the United States.
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John Kevin Boland was born in Monkstown, County Cork, Ireland in 1935. Bishop Boland attended Christian Brothers College in Cork and All Hallows Seminary in Dublin. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 14, 1959, for the Diocese of Savannah by Archbishop John Charles McQuaid of Dublin.
Bishop Boland attended The Catholic University of America (1962–1964), and Fordham University (1987–1989), from which he holds a Master’s Degree. In 1974, he also attended the Pontifical North American Collegein their Continuing Education program.
He was appointed Bishop of Savannah on February 7, 1995, and his episcopal ordination took place on April 18, 1995, at the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist in Savannah. Boland reached the mandatory retirement age of 75 on April 25, 2010 and has submitted his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.
Boland has been a member of the Pastoral Practices Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He has served on the Board of the Southeast Pastoral Institute. He has previously been Region IV representative to the USCCB Administrative Committee and a member of the USCCB Communications Committee. In November 2001 he was named chairman of the Committee on Marriage and Family Life. In November 2002, he became a member of the USCCB Budget and Finance Committee. Boland is currently a board member of the All Hallows Missionary College Fund and a Trustee for Catholic Mutual Group.
His parents, John Joseph and Gertrude O’Brien, are both deceased. He has three brothers, Frank, Tony and Raymond, who is the former bishop of Kansas City, Missouri.
| Preceded by Raymond W. Lessard |
Bishop of Savannah 1995–2011 |
Succeeded by Gregory John Hartmayer |