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Patrick Allen
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Jamaican politician, current Governor-General of Jamaica
Key facts
- Monarchs
- Elizabeth II , Charles III
- Prime minister
- Bruce Golding , Andrew Holness , Portia Simpson-Miller , Andrew Holness
- Preceded by
- Kenneth O. Hall
- Born
- Patrick Linton Allen , ( 1951-02-07 ) 7 February 1951 (age 75) , Fruitful Vale , Colony of Jamaica , British Empire
- Spouse
- Patricia Beckford
- Alma mater
- Andrews University ( BA , MA )
- Religion
- Christianity
- Denomination
- Adventism ( Seventh-Day Adventist )
- Church
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church
- Ordination
- 15 September 1962
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Patrick
- Family name
- Allen
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Jamaica
- Place of birth
- Kingston
- Occupation
- politician
- Position held
- Governor-General of Jamaica
- Educated at
- Andrews University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Image
- Patrick Allen Coronation 2023.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
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- date of birth
- 1951-02-07
- Commons category
- Patrick Allen
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Encyclopedic overview
Sir Patrick Linton Allen ON GCMG CD KStJ (born 7 February 1951) is a Jamaican statesman and former Seventh-day Adventist pastor, who has serving as the sixth and current governor-general of Jamaica since 26 February 2009.
The fourth of five children in a family of subsistence farmers, Allen spent over a decade as a teacher and principal, before leaving education to be trained as an Adventist minister at Andrews University in the United States. After becoming a pastor, Allen went on to serve in a number of leadership roles within the Seventh-day Adventist Church, eventually becoming the leader of the West Indies Union of Seventh-day Adventists, which had jurisdiction over Jamaica, The Bahamas, the Cayman Islands, and the Turks and Caicos Islands.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Patrick Allen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.