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George Theodore Boileau (September 12, 1912 – February 25, 1965) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic church. He served as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks in Alaska for seven months from August 1964 to February 1965.

George Boileau was born in Lothrop, Montana. He was ordained a priest in San Francisco by Archbishop John Mitty for the Society of Jesus on June 13, 1948. On April 21, 1964, Boileau was appointed titular bishop of Ausuccurra and coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska; he was consecrated by Cardinal Francis Spellman on July 31, 1964. Boileau attended the Second Vatican Council in Fall 1964 in Rome.

Boileau died before assuming the office of bishop on February 25, 1965. The gymnasium at Monroe Catholic High School in Fairbanks, Alaska, is named Boileau Hall in his honor.

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Roman Catholic Diocese of Fairbanks
Ordinaries
Apostolic prefects of Alaska
Pascal Tosi
Jean-Baptiste René
Apostolic vicars of Alaska
Joseph Raphael John Crimont
Walter James Fitzgerald
Bishops of Fairbanks
Francis Doyle Gleeson
Robert Louis Whelan
Michael Joseph Kaniecki
Donald Joseph Kettler
Chad Zielinski
Steven Maekawa
Coadjutor bishop
George Theodore Boileau
Churches
Cathedral
Sacred Heart Cathedral
Parishes
Immaculate Conception Church, Fairbanks
Education
High school
Monroe Catholic High School, Fairbanks


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