The resignation came after an internal investigation found he engaged in behaviours that conflicted with the Jesuit order's "protocols and boundaries," according to a statement issued by the school Wednesday.

The Rev. Kevin O'Brien, who had been on leave since mid-March, offered his resignation Sunday, according to a letter issued by John Sobrato, president of the Santa Clara, California, school's Board of Trustees.

O'Brien, who formerly served at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and has known the Bidens since the mid-2000s, had been president at Santa Clara since July 2019.

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