Ernest Bertrand Boland OP (born July 10, 1925) is an American

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bishop. Boland was born in

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts Bay ...

. Boland went to

Providence College Providence College is a Private university, private Catholic Church, Catholic university in Providence, Rhode Island. Founded in 1917 by the Dominican Order and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence, local diocese, it offers 47 undergradua ...

and joined the

Dominican order The Order of Preachers ( la, Ordo Praedicatorum) abbreviated OP, also known as the Dominicans, is a Catholic mendicant order of Pontifical Right for men founded in Toulouse, France, by the Spanish priest, saint and mystic Dominic of Cal ...

in 1949. He was ordained to the priesthood on June 9, 1955. He was a high school teacher in

Columbus, Ohio Columbus () is the state capital and the most populous city in the U.S. state of Ohio. With a 2020 census population of 905,748, it is the 14th-most populous city in the U.S., the second-most populous city in the Midwest, after Chicago, and t ...

. He was appointed bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Multan The Roman Catholic Diocese of Multan (Lat: ''Dioecesis Multanensis'') is a diocese of the Latin Church of the Roman Catholic Church in Pakistan. The diocese is located in the southern Punjab in a central part of Pakistan. The total population ...

, Pakistan and was consecrated on May 17, 1966. Boland served as bishop of the Multan Diocese until 1984. He has lived at Providence College since 1995 and has assisted the bishop of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence The Roman Catholic Diocese of Providence ( la, Dioecesis Providentiensis) is a diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States. The diocese was erected by Pope Pius IX on February 17, 1872 and originally comprised the entire state of Rhode ...

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