Edward Patrick Allen

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Edward Patrick Allen
Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style His Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style not applicable


Bishop Edward Patrick Allen (March 17, 1853 – October 21, 1926) was a Roman Catholic bishop and the fifth Bishop of Mobile.

Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, he was ordained to the priesthood for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Boston on December 17,1881, after completing a theological course at Mount St. Mary's College, Emmitsburg, Maryland. In 1889 Georgetown University conferred on him the degree of Doctor of Divinity. He was appointed Bishop of Mobile on April 19, 1897, and ordained on May 16, 1897.

He died October 21, 1926, and is entombed in the crypt of the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Mobile, Alabama.

Preceded by
Jeremiah O'Sullivan		 Bishop of Mobile
1897–1926		 Succeeded by
Thomas Joseph Toolen

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