Kenneth E. Killoren [SEP] date of birth
Kenneth E. Killoren
Kenneth E. Killoren (1919-1988) was a Jesuit priest who lived in Korea and the first president of Sogang University.
He came to Korea in 1955 with Arthur Dethlefs, another Jesuit priest from Wisconsin. Killoren became the first president of Sogang in February 1960. He was also a contributing writer to the Korea Journal. He was the first naturalized citizen of Korea.
See also.
- Jesuit
- Sogang University
- Kenneth E. Killoren – American former Jesuit missionary in South Korea and the first President of Sogang University
- Donald Kimball – American former diocesan priest and radio personality; laicized in 2000 amidst charges of underage sexual abuse
- Harold M. Koch – American former priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago from 1958–1963 before being laicized for psychiatric problems; best known for defecting to the Soviet Union in 1966 in protest of the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War before returning three months later
- Rudolph Kos – American former priest