Andrew Boylan (other)
Andrew Boylan may refer to: * Andrew Boylan (bishop) (1842–1910), Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church * Andrew Boylan (politician) (born 1939), Irish Fine Gael politician {{hndis, Boylan, Andrew ...
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Andrew Boylan (bishop)
Andrew Boylan, C.Ss.R. (1842–1910) was an Irish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Bishop of Kilmore from 1907 to 1910. Early life and education It is uncertain where exactly he was born but believed to be in either the townlands of Tonylion or Kilnaleck in the civil parish of Crosserlough, County Cavan, Ireland on 1 August 1842. Boylan was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Kilmore on 31 March 1867. A bright student, he joined the staff of Maynooth College and served there as Bursar. The Redemptorists The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer arrived in the UK in the 1860s and experienced great growth. At the invitation of several Irish bishops the order came to Ireland in the 1870s and many of the early priests were already diocesan clergy. Boylan felt a calling to the values of the order and was professed a priest of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer on 15 October 1888. When the houses in Ireland were separated from the houses in Engl ...
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