- Thomas Aloysius Boland
infobox bishopstyles
name=Thomas Boland
dipstyle=The Most Reverend
offstyle=Your Excellency
relstyle=Monsignor
deathstyle=none |Thomas Aloysius Boland, STD, LLD (
February 17 ,1896 —March 16 ,1979 ) was an Americanprelate of theRoman Catholic Church . He served as Archbishop of Newark from 1952 to 1974.Biography
Thomas Boland was born in Orange,
New Jersey , and studied atSeton Hall University , where he wasvaledictorian of his class. He then entered thePontifical North American College inRome , and was there ordained to the priesthood onDecember 23 ,1922 . He later chaired both moral theology and canon law at the North American College, and served in other various offices and capacities.On
May 21 ,1940 , Boland was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Newark andTitular bishop of Hirina byPope Pius XII . He received his episcopal consecration on the followingJuly 25 from Archbishop Thomas Walsh, with Bishops William Griffin and Bartholomew Eustace serving as co-consecrators. Boland was later named Bishop of Paterson onJune 21 ,1947 , and Archbishop of Newark onNovember 15 ,1952 .The Archbishop attended the
Second Vatican Council from 1962 to 1965, and was later chosen to head the Bishops' Study Committee, to which he was re-elected each of his three years there. He was a member of the Catholic Mission Board of the United States, Chairman of the Episcopal Committee, and liaison between women religious and the hierarchy of the United States as well. Boland was also an advocate ofcivil rights , and supported theBishops' Letter on Social Justice in 1958, which emphasized Catholics' duty to ensure thatAfrican American s possessed all rights guaranteed by the Constitution. He retired as Archbishop onApril 2 ,1974 , after twenty-one years of service.Boland died at the age of 83, and was buried in the
crypt of Sacred Heart Cathedral, which he himself had dedicated onOctober 19 ,1954 .External links
* [http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bbolandt.html Catholic-Hierarchy]
* [http://www.rcan.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=feature.display&feature_id=115 Archdiocese of Newark]
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