Paul Eugene Virgil Shannon (March 25, 1898 – May 23, 1957) was a bishop of the Evangelical United Brethren Church, elected in 1957.
Following college graduation from Lebanon Valley in 1918, Paul enrolled at Bonebrake Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio.
After receiving a License to Preach, Paul was appointed Pastor of two United Brethren Churches near Middletown, Pennsylvania.
Under the combined load of college studies and pastoral responsibilities, however, Paul suffered a physical breakdown.
Following college graduation at twenty years of age, Paul spent the summer as Pastor of the U.B.
During his second year in seminary, he began serving the Fairview Church in Dayton, but ill health forced him out of the pulpit.
In his farewell message to the Fairview congregation, he said: Two days before Christmas, 1924, the Shannon family moved to a cottage at Mt.