Edmund Michael Dunne

Edmund Michael Dunne (February 2, 1864 – October 17, 1929) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois from 1909 until his death in 1929.

Biography

Early life Edmund Dunne was born on February 2, 1864, in Chicago, Illinois, to an Irish family, and attended the parochial school of Holy Name Cathedral in Chicago He studied at St. Ignatius College in Chicago before entering Niagara University in Lewiston, New York. He completed his theological studies at the American College of the Immaculate Conception in Leuven, Belgium. Dunne furthered his studies at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, obtaining a Doctor of Divinity degree in 1890. Nine months later, Dunne summoned Sheen to his office. Dunne told him:I promised you to Catholic University over a year ago. They told me that with all your traipsing around Europe, you'd be so high hat you couldn't take orders. But Father Cullen says you've been a good boy at St. Patrick's. So run along to Washington. Edmund Dunn died on October 17, 1929, at age 65.

Works Polemic Chat (1912) Memoirs of Zi Pre' (1914)