BISHOP CULLEN TO BE HONORED AT MUHLENBERG COLLEGE
Bishop Edward P. Cullen will receive an honorary doctoral degree during Honors Convocation at Muhlenberg College on Sunday, April 21, 3:30 p.m., in Egner Memorial Chapel.Wednesday, April 3, 2002 02:18 PM
Bishop Edward P. Cullen will receive an honorary doctoral degree during Honors Convocation at Muhlenberg College on Sunday, April 21, 3:30 p.m., in Egner Memorial Chapel.
Bishop Cullen studied engineering at Drexel Institute of Technology before entering St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Philadelphia, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1958. John Cardinal Krol, then Archbishop of Philadelphia, ordained Cullen a priest in May of 1962 at the Basilica of SS. Peter and Paul in Philadelphia.
Bishop Cullen served as assistant director of Catholic Social Services and studied social work at the University of Pennsylvania until 1983, and was the director from 1983-1988. Today, CSS is the largest voluntary social service agency in Southeastern Pennsylvania. Bishop Cullen also served as chaplain of St. Edmond's Home for Crippled Children, Rosemont, where he resided from 1979 until becoming Bishop of Allentown.
In 1982, then-Father Cullen was named an Honorary Prelate to His Holiness Pope John Paul II, with the title of Monsignor. From 1985-86 he attended the Harvard Graduate School of Business Human Services Management Executive Program.
In 1998, Cardinal Bevilacqua installed Bishop Cullen as the Third Bishop of Allentown. Since then, Bishop Cullen has reorganized diocesan administration and launched a spiritual initiative called Renew 2000, a diocesan-wide, parish level program in keeping with Pope John Paul II's call for new evangelization in the church. In November of 2001, Bishop Cullen was elected the Chairman of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on Women in Society and the Church.
