Pastor served 24 years of active ministry in Hawaii

HAWAII
Hawaii Catholic Herald

Father Anthony Bolger, a retired priest who served the Diocese of Honolulu for 35 years, died Jan. 7 at his residence in Tijuana, Mexico. He was 71 and a priest for 45 years.

Father Bolger served 24 years of active ministry as a parish priest in Hawaii.

Funeral services are pending.

Anthony J. Bolger was born on Sept. 16, 1943, to Thomas J. and Sylvia L. Schneider Bolger in Toledo, Ohio, one of three brothers and three sisters.

He studied at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and The Gregorian University in Rome where he earned a licentiate of sacred theology in moral theology a few years after his ordination.

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