Edward Peter Cullen

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name = Edward Peter Cullen

religion = Roman Catholic
See = Allentown
Title = Bishop of Allentown
Period = 1997—
Predecessor = Thomas Jerome Welsh
Successor = (incumbent)
ordination = May 18, 1962
bishops = Bishop of Philadelphia (auxiliary),
Bishop of Paria in Proconsolare (titular)
post = Bishop
date of birth = Birth date and age|1933|3|15|mf=y
place of birth = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Edward Peter Cullen (born 1933) is the third and current Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of Allentown. Cullen was born on March 15, 1933 in Yeadon, Pennsylvania; he was the second of five children in an Irish-Catholic family. He eventually became an engineering student at the Drexel Institute of Technology; in 1953 he entered the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958.

He was ordained a priest in the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on May 19, 1962; he became an auxiliary bishop there on February 8, 1994 and later a vicar general there.

He was consecrated as titular bishop of Paria in Proconsolare on April 14, 1994 and later installed as bishop of Allentown on February 9, 1998 to replace the resigning Thomas Jerome Welsh.

In a Philadelphia Grand Jury Report on the pedophilia sex scandal, several unflattering references were made to Bishop Cullen. As the Morning Call reported: "Cullen is portrayed as perpetuating an unwritten policy of obfuscation and excuse-peddling in dealing with sexually abusive priests." SOURCE The Morning Call [Allentown PA] September 23, 2005, http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5cullen.4806014sep23,0,4839294.story?coll=all-newslocal-hed&track=mostemailedlink

Recently, Bishop Cullen formed a synod in the Allentown Diocese that seeks to close nearly a third of its parishes. SOURCE http://www.allentowndiocese.org/news/nr060108a.html

External links

* [http://www.allentowndiocese.org/bishop.html The Diocese of Allentown: The Bishop]

Persondata
NAME = Cullen, Edward Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES =
SHORT DESCRIPTION = (Roman Catholic) auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia, titular Bishop of Paria in Proconsolare, Bishop of Allentown
DATE OF BIRTH = March 15, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
DATE OF DEATH =
PLACE OF DEATH =