Career
He was the third bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Oklahoma (1977-1989). McAllister was born in San Antonio, Texas. In 1967, McAllister was celebrant at the White House wedding of Lynda Bird Johnson, daughter of president Lyndon Baines Johnson, to Marine Captain Charles South. Robb.
He was ordained to the diaconate on September 30, 1953, and to the priesthood a year later, on September 24, 1954.
Bishop McAllister died in his native San Antonio, Texas on June 10, 2014, aged 91.