monarch predecessor children religion birth_place office primeminister birth_date term_start spouse article_title name alma_mater
elizabeth ii kenneth hall 3 seventh-day adventism portland , jamaica 6th governor-general of jamaica bruce golding andrew holness portia simpson-miller 7 february 1951 26 february 2009 patricia beckford patrick allen -lrb- politician -rrb-
 sir patrick allen andrews university
patrick allen -lrb- politician -rrb-

sir patrick linton allen , on , gcmg , cd , k.st.j -lrb- born 7 february 1951 -rrb- is the sixth and current governor-general of jamaica .
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 .
allen became jamaica 's sixth appointed governor-general -lrb- eighth overall , including two acting governors-general -rrb- .
he replaced sir kenneth o. hall , who resigned for health reasons .
allen 's appointment was controversial due to his strong ties to the seventh-day adventist church , and because of concerns that he would be unable to attend functions on saturdays due to his faith 's strict observation of the sabbath .
allen resigned from his leadership of the west indies union prior to becoming governor-general , however .
