Emilio Allué

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Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Robert Joseph Banks
Personal details
Born
Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona

(1935-02-18)18 February 1935
Died26 April 2020(2020-04-26) (aged 85)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
EducationDon Bosco College
Salesian Pontifical University(STL)
Fordham University(PhD)
MottoDa mihi animas
"Give me souls"
Styles of
Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona
Reference style
Spoken style
Your Excellency
Religious styleBishop

Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona, SDB (18 February 1935 – 26 April 2020) was a Spanish-born American prelate of the Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Boston until his retirement in 2010.

Life and ministry

Born in

priesthood on 22 December 1966.[2]

He earned a Licentiate of Sacred Theology from the Salesian University in 1967, and was director of the Salesian Seminary in Goshen, New York, from 1972 to 1975. He received a Ph.D. in the history of Christianity from Fordham University in 1981, and later served as parish vicar for Hispanic ministry at Mary Help of Christians Church in New York.[1]

On 24 July 1996, Allué was appointed

Theodore McCarrick and Bishop Robert Banks serving as co-consecrators.[2]

As an auxiliary, Allué served as regional bishop of the

Merrimack Pastoral Region and episcopal vicar for the Hispanic apostolate.[3]

In 2002, Allué was named in a sexual abuse lawsuit claiming that he ignored credible allegations of abuse by priests during his tenure in 1972 as director of a junior seminary in Goshen, New York. One allegation involved his efforts to expel a student rather than confront the alleged abuser.[4]

Allué died on 26 April 2020 in Boston, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Boston.[5]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS". Christus Rex. 24 July 1996.
  2. ^ a b c "Bishop Emilio Simeon Alluè, S.D.B." Catholic-Hierarchy.org.[self-published source]
  3. ^ Until his retirement on 30 June 2010."Most Reverend Emilio S. Allué, SDB, DD". Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston. Archived from the original on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 14 May 2009.
  4. ^ "Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church".
  5. ^ "Bishop Emilio Allué, retired auxiliary bishop of Boston, dies". www.thebostonpilot.com. Retrieved 27 April 2020.

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Episcopal succession

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by
Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston
2010–2020
Succeeded by
Preceded by
Auxiliary Bishop of Boston
1996–2010
Succeeded by