NEW YORK — Cardinal Edward Egan was God’s servant and worked tirelessly for parishes, charities, health care and education, Cardinal Timothy Dolan said Tuesday at a funeral Mass for one of the most powerful prelates in the global Roman Catholic Church.

Dolan told the 2,500 people packing St. Patrick’s Cathedral that Egan “was uncomfortable with eulogies” — but went on to praise him nonetheless. He said New Yorkers from fellow clergy members to “God’s good people” could tell of “consolation given on and after 9/11, prayers offered, sick visited, prisoners encouraged, children taught, immigrants welcomed and parishes strengthened.”

“Now this church thanks God for him,” said Dolan, archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York.

Egan led the New York archdiocese for almost a decade, including on Sept. 11, 2001, when hijacked planes decimated the World Trade Center.

In the weeks that followed, he performed many funerals.

He died March 5 after a heart attack at age 82.

Several of Egan’s relatives took part in the Mass, some calling him Uncle Ed.

In the pews were Gov. Andrew Cuomo, police Commissioner William Bratton and four mayors.