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Father Allan Von Kobs, O.F.M., who served for more than three decades in Manhattan with the Franciscans’ Holy Name Province, died April 9 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan. He was 74.
Father Von Kobs served as an associate at St. Francis Friary, Manhattan, 1989-1993. After serving for a year in Providence, R.I., he returned to St. Francis Friary, where he served in various roles, including assistant to the director of province communications, parochial vicar of St. Francis of Assisi parish and director of planned giving for St. Anthony’s Guild.
Since 2003, he was a financial administrator for the province. Beginning in 2006, he also served in this role for the province’s Franciscan Missionary Union and Franciscan Bread for the Poor.
Born in Milwaukee, he entered the Congregation of the Brothers of the Poor of St. Francis in 1964 and professed final vows in 1970. He received a bachelor’s degree from LeMoyne College in Syracuse, and a master’s in mathematics education from Xavier University in Cincinnati.
He was elected to the congregation’s general council in 1976 and moved to the general curia in Aachen, West Germany, where he was ordained in 1982. That year, he was chosen to be the congregation’s procurator general to the Holy See. In Rome, he attended Pontifical Gregorian University, where he received a licentiate of sacred theology and doctor of sacred theology. He was received into the Order of Friars Minor in 1989 at St. Francis of Assisi Church in Manhattan. He professed final vows in 1992.
A Memorial Mass will be offered at a later date.
