Background
Boland, Raymond James was born on February 8, 1932 in Tipperary, Ireland. Came to the United States, 1957.
Boland, Raymond James was born on February 8, 1932 in Tipperary, Ireland. Came to the United States, 1957.
Attended, National University Ireland and All Hallows Seminary, Dublin.
Born in Ireland, Boland received his early education from the Christian Brothers in Cork. He trained at All Hallows College, Dublin, as a missionary priest, while also taking a degree at University College Dublin and was ordained to the priesthood on June 16, 1957, for the Archdiocese of Washington. Boland was appointed Bishop of Birmingham in Alabama on February 2, 1988, and consecrated on March 25, 1988.
He was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph on June 22, 1993.
The Vatican accepted Boland"s request for retirement on May 24, 2005, after which he served as bishop emeritus of the diocese. Boland died on the evening of February 27, 2014, in Cork, Ireland.
After reports indicated that the death rate of priests from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is at least four times that of the general population, Boland asserted that the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome deaths show that priests are human.
