Daniel E. Thomas

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Daniel Edward Thomas, VG (born June 11, 1959) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who currently serves as an auxiliary bishop of Philadelphia.

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Daniel Thomas was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, graduating Roman Catholic High School in 1977. Later, he attended St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and was ordained to the priesthood by John Cardinal Krol on May 18, 1985. He then traveled to Rome to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University, from where he obtained his Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1989. Thomas was an official of the Congregation for Bishops in the Roman Curia from 1990 to 2005, whilst concurrently serving as spiritual director to the seminarians of the Pontifical North American College.

He then returned to the United States, where he became pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Church in Strafford on November 19, 2005. He was raised to the rank of Honorary Prelate of His Holiness during that same year.

On June 8, 2006, Thomas was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Philadelphia and Titular Bishop of Bardstown by Pope Benedict XVI. He received his episcopal consecration on the following July 26 from Justin Cardinal Rigali, with Archbishops John Foley and Edwin O'Brien serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts. Peter and Paul.

The Bishop currently heads the Secretariat of Clergy in the archdiocesan curia, and oversees his alma mater of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary and the Archdiocese's Vocation Office, Office for Communications, and newspaper The Catholic Standard and Times.

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