Emilio Simeon Allué
Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona SDB (born February 18, 1935 in Huesca , Spain , † April 26, 2020 in Boston , Massachusetts , USA ) was a Spanish-American Roman Catholic religious chaplain and auxiliary bishop in Boston .
Life
Allué took his religious vows as a Salesian of Don Bosco in 1962 and studied at Don Bosco College in Newton , New Jersey . He continued his studies at the Pontifical University of the Salesians in Turin and Rome , where he was ordained a priest on December 22, 1966, graduating in 1967 with a licentiate and in 1969 with a Doctorate in Sacred Theology (STD) .
From 1972 to 1975 he was director of the Salesian Seminary in Goshen , New York . In 1974 he received citizenship of the United States . In 1981 he received his Ph.D. in Church History from Fordham University. He later served as the parish vicar of the Hispanic Congregation Mary Help of Christians in New York.
On July 24, 1996, Allué was appointed auxiliary bishop in the Archdiocese of Boston and titular bishop of Croae by Pope John Paul II . He was ordained episcopal on September 17th of the same year by the Archbishop of Boston, Bernard Francis Cardinal Law . Co- consecrators were the Archbishop of Newark , Theodore Edgar McCarrick , and the Bishop of Green Bay , Robert Joseph Banks . Allué was responsible for the pastoral region of Merrimack and the Hispanic Apostolate in the Archdiocese .
In 2004 he was invested in the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem at St. Michael's Cathedral in Springfield .
On June 30, 2010, Pope Benedict XVI. his resignation request submitted for reasons of age. During the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States , he was admitted to St. Elizabeth's Medical Center in Boston in mid-April 2020 . There he died on April 26th as a result of a SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Fonts
- The image of Mercy , Peace Through Mercy Publishing 1996, ISBN 9780965523103
Web links
- Entry on Emilio Simeon Allué on catholic-hierarchy.org
- Entry on Emilio Simeon Allué SDS on gcatholic.org (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b "Bishop Emilio Allué, retired auxiliary bishop of Boston, dies" , The Boston Pilot of April 27, 2020 (English)
- ↑ "Holy Sepulcher Order Invest's 26 new members" , The Boston Pilot of 12 March 2004, accessed on 27 April 2020 (English)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Allué, Emilio Simeon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Allué Carcasona, Emilio Simeon (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish-US-American religious and Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in Boston |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 18, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Huesca , Spain |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 26, 2020 |
| Place of death | Boston , Massachusetts , USA |