John Patrick Boles (January 21, 1930 – October 9, 2014) was an American
Roman Catholic
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titular bishop
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of Nova Sparsa and
auxiliary bishop of the
Archdiocese of Boston, Massachusetts.
Life
Born in
Boston, Massachusetts, Boles was ordained a priesthood for the Boston Archdiocese on February 2, 1955. On April 14, 1992, Boles was appointed an auxiliary bishop of Boston and was ordained bishop on May 21, 1992. He served as regional bishop for the Central pastoral region of the archdiocese, which was based in Boston and Cambridge. Boles retired on October 12, 2006. He died on October 9, 2014, in
Framingham, Massachusetts
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, aged 84.
References
1930 births
2014 deaths
Roman Catholic clergy in the United States
21st-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
American Roman Catholic clergy of Irish descent
20th-century American Roman Catholic titular bishops
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