Alfred Monahan

Alfred Edwin Monahan (1877–1945) was the Anglican Bishop of Monmouth from 1940 until his death in 1945.

Biography Monahan was educated at St Andrew's College, Dublin, and Trinity College Dublin and ordained in 1905. He was Assistant Missioner at the Wellington College Mission, Walworth, and then Curate of St Swithun and Old St Martin, Worcester. He was then successively the Vicar (1912–1930), Archdeacon ( 1930–1940) and finally Bishop of Monmouth (1940–1945). Monahan has been described as "a firm churchman of authoritarian personality who attracted and repelled according to taste, but he was a strong and effective teacher, preacher and spiritual director". He based his compilation The Churchpeople's Prayer Book on the 1928 Prayer Book. Monahan adopted the principle of reservation of the blessed sacrament in church and allowed devotional services of Benediction, During Dr Monahan's time in the diocese many clergy who had trained at St Stephen's House, Oxford were recruited to the diocese, and for all the furore caused by the proceedings against MacNachten, the character of Monmouth became considerably more "High Church" under his leadership. Records which came to light after his death show that Monahan had wished to appoint the Warden of Pusey House, Oxford, Canon Frederic Hood, as Dean of Monmouth, but was prevented from doing so by the refusal of the then Dean to retire.

Bishop Monahan died in post on 10 August 1945.