{{short description|Irish Anglican bishop (1910-2005)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=August 2020}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = bishop | honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend | name = Edwin Owen, | honorific-suffix = MA | title = Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe | image = | image_size = | alt = | caption = | province = Dublin | diocese = Limerick and Killaloe | elected = 21 September 1976 | term_end = 6 January 1981 | predecessor = <!--inaugural bishop--> | successor = Walton Empey | other_post = <!---------- Orders ----------> | ordination = 1935 | ordinated_by = | consecration = 9 January 1972 | consecrated_by = <!---------- Personal details ----------> | birth_name = | birth_date = 3 November 1910 | birth_place = | death_date = {{dda|df=y|2005|4|2|1910|11|3}} | death_place = | buried = | nationality = Irish | religion = Church of Ireland | residence = | parents = | spouse = | children = | occupation = | profession = | previous_post = Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert | alma_mater = | motto = | signature = | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = }} '''Edwin Owen''' (3 November 1910 – 2 April 2005) was an Anglican bishop in the Church of Ireland.

Owen was educated at The Royal School, Armagh and Trinity College, Dublin.<ref>"Who was Who" 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}</ref> He was ordained in 1935<ref>''Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975-76'' London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}}</ref> and was a curate at both Glenageary and Christ Church, Leeson Park, Dublin. He was a minor canon of St Patrick’s Cathedral, Dublin and then chancellor’s vicar and finally succentor. From 1942 to 1957 he was the incumbent at Birr and then Dean of Killaloe Cathedral until 1972. He was elected as the Bishop of Killaloe and Clonfert on 1 December 1971 and was consecrated on 25 January 1972.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 398.</ref> In 1976, the sees of Killaloe and Clonfert were united to those of Limerick, Ardfert and Aghadoe, forming the current Diocese of Limerick and Killaloe, with Owen elected as Bishop of Limerick and Killaloe on 21 September 1976 and enthroned on 5 December 1976.<ref>{{Harvnb|Fryde|Greenway|Porter|Roy|1986}}, ''Handbook of British Chronology'', p. 401.</ref> He retired on 6 January 1981.{{citation needed|date=August 2020}}

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