Emilio Allué

{{Infobox Christian leader

| honorific-prefix = The Most Reverend

| name = Emilio Allué

| honorific-suffix = SDB

| title = Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus of Boston
Titular Bishop of Croae

| church = Roman Catholic Church

| archdiocese = Boston

| appointed = 24 July 1996

| enthroned = 17 September 1996

| ended = 30 June 2010

| other_post = Titular Bishop of Croae

| ordination = 22 December 1966

| consecration = 17 September 1996

| consecrated_by = Bernard Francis Law
Theodore Edgar McCarrick
Robert Joseph Banks

|birth_name=Emilio Simeon Allué Carcasona

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1935|02|18|df=y}}

| birth_place = Huesca, Aragon, Spain

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2020|04|26|1935|2|18|df=y}}

| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.

| motto = Da mihi animas
"Give me souls"

| education = Don Bosco College
Salesian Pontifical University(STL)
Fordham University(PhD)

}}

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| offstyle=Your Excellency

| relstyle=Bishop

| image = Mitre (plain).svg

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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 Huesca, Spain, on 18 February 1935, Emilio Allué made his profession as a Salesian in 1962 and attended Don Bosco College in Newton, New Jersey.{{cite news |date=24 July 1996 |work=Christus Rex |title=OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS |url=http://www.christusrex.org/www2/news-old/7-96/es7-24-96.html}} He then furthered his studies at the Salesian Pontifical University in Rome, where he was ordained to the priesthood on 22 December 1966.{{cite news |work=Catholic-Hierarchy.org |title=Bishop Emilio Simeon Alluè, S.D.B. |url=http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/ballue.html}}{{Self-published source|date=December 2015}}

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.

On 24 July 1996, Allué was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Boston and Titular Bishop of Croae by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following 17 September from Cardinal Bernard Francis Law, with Archbishop Theodore McCarrick and Bishop Robert Banks serving as co-consecrators.

As an auxiliary, Allué served as regional bishop of the Merrimack Pastoral Region and episcopal vicar for the Hispanic apostolate.Until his retirement on 30 June 2010.{{cite news |work=Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston |title=Most Reverend Emilio S. Allué, SDB, DD |url=http://www.bostoncatholic.org/About-The-Archdiocese/Content.aspx?id=11986 |access-date=14 May 2009 |archive-date=3 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003050227/http://www.bostoncatholic.org/About-The-Archdiocese/Content.aspx?id=11986 |url-status=dead }}

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.{{Cite web|url=https://archive.boston.com/globe/spotlight/abuse/print3/112202_allue.htm|title = Boston Globe / Spotlight / Abuse in the Catholic Church}}

Allué died on 26 April 2020 in Boston, after contracting COVID-19 during the COVID-19 pandemic in Boston.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=187493|title=Bishop Emilio Allué, retired auxiliary bishop of Boston, dies|website=www.thebostonpilot.com|access-date=27 April 2020}}