Stephen A. Kelly | |
Order: | 7th |
Office: | List of presidents of Loyola University MarylandPresident of Loyola College in Maryland |
Termstart: | 1871 |
Termend: | 1877 |
Predecessor: | Edward Henchy |
Successor: | Edward A. McGurk |
Honorific Prefix: | The Reverend |
Birth Date: | 26 December 1833 |
Birth Place: | Dublin, Ireland |
Death Place: | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Honorific Suffix: | S.J. |
Stephen A. Kelly, S.J. (December 26, 1833 – February 13, 1910) was an Irish-American Catholic priest and Jesuit.
Stephen A. Kelly was born on December 26, 1833, in Dublin, in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. He entered the Society of Jesus and proceeded to the Jesuit novitiate in Frederick, Maryland, US.
Kelly became a professor at Georgetown University and Gonzaga College in Washington, D.C. He then became the assistant superior of Woodstock College, before being appointed the President of Loyola College in Maryland and ex officio pastor of St. Ignatius Church in January 1871, succeeding Edward Henchy.
In 1881, Kelly became the pastor of Holy Trinity Church in Washington, D.C.[1] He died on February 13, 1910, at the rectory of Old St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.