Father Kenneth M. Bolin is a native of Manlius, IL. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Arabic and French from the United States Military Academy in West Point, NY, a Master of Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary in Dallas, TX, and a Master of Arts in Moral Theology and Ethics from the Catholic University of America, in Washington, DC.

Prior to his call to ministry, Fr. Bolin served with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), deploying to Egypt on a peacekeeping mission in 1999, and was a company commander with the 54th Signal Battalion in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, deploying forward to Afghanistan and Uzbekistan  (2002-2003). After serving on active duty for seven years in the Infantry and Signal Corps branches, he resigned his commission to pursue full-time vocational ministry. He was subsequently commissioned as a United States Army Chaplain in June 2006.  He had additional deployments to Iraq (2006-2007) and Afghanistan (2011-2012, and 2017-2018) prior to retiring from active-duty in October of 2019.

Father Bolin grew up Lutheran, became a non-denominational evangelical protestant during his initial time in the Army, later serving as a protestant chaplain during the first half of his military chaplaincy, most of that as an Anglican priest. In 2012, he was received into the Catholic Church, and ordained to the priesthood in March, 2013.  After 5 years serving St. Thomas Becket Catholic Church in Fort Worth, TX, Bishop Lopes re-assigned him to St. John Fisher Catholic Church in Orlando, FL in 2024.