A funeral will be held this afternoon at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan for Auburn native Cardinal Avery Dulles, who died last week at the age of 90.

Dulles was a convert to Roman Catholicism from a prominent American family. He was the only U.S. theologian named a cardinal without first becoming a bishop.

Cardinal Edward Egan will celebrate the funeral Mass at 2 p.m. Thursday.

Dulles was a professor for two decades at Fordham University.

He was the grandson of a Presbyterian minister, and the son of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who served under President Dwight Eisenhower.

The cardinal's uncle was Allen Dulles, who led the Central Intelligence Agency in the Eisenhower administration.

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