Ernest Bertrand Boland OP (July 10, 1925 – May 28, 2023) was an American

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bishop. Boland was born in

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. Boland went to

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and joined the

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

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. He was appointed bishop of the

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

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

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. Boland died in

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, on May 28, 2023, at the age of 97.

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