John Kevin Boland
JOHN KEVIN BOLAND
Born: April 25, 1935
Deceased:
Bishop of Savannah, 1995-2011
 Bishop of Savannah |
 Emeritus bishop of Savannah (after 2011) |
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As bishop:
Impaled Arms: On the dexter for the Diocese of Savannah; Argent on a cross gules, a rose or between four mullets azure. On the sinister for Bishop Boland; Azure a round tower or, on a chief of the last, a lion passant gules langued and armed of the first.
Origin/meaning
As common in US episcopal heraldry, the arms show the arms of the diocese impaled with the personal arms of the bishop.
The personal Arms of Bishop Boland consist of a blue field charged with a round tower of gold, representative of St. Kevin, the bishop's patron saint who founded a monastic settlement at Glendalough, County Wicklow, where a round tower can be found to this day. In the chief is a red lion. The chief and lion are found in the arms of the Irish sept of Boland and the lion also commemorates the sept of O'Brien, the bishop's maternal family.
The achievement is completed with the heraldic insignia of a prelate of the rank of bishop by instruction of the Holy See, of March 1969, confirmed in March 2001.
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