John Joseph Boardman was Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Brooklyn, New York and Titular Bishop of Gunela.
He was born on November 7, 1893 in Brooklyn and ordained a parish priest on May 21, 1921, aged 27. The Principal Consecrator was Archbishop Thomas Molloy.
On March 28, 1952, aged 58, he was appointed as Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn and Titular Bishop of Gunela. On June 11, 1952 he was ordained as Titular Bishop of Gunela.
In October 1977 he retired as Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn and died on July 16, 1978, at the age of 84 as Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus.
He was a priest for 57 years and a bishop for 26 years.
In 1959 Bishop Boardman was sent from Holy Name Parish, where he had been Pastor, to be the new Pastor of Our Lady of Angels in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. He was a beloved figure at the elementary school of O.L.A., and a fiery sermonizer from the Sunday pulpit. Schoolchildren of the 1960s still remember how he would cross the schoolyard from the Rectory to the Church in his flowing robes, taking the children who swarmed to him under his outer garments so that they could walk with him along the way.