Daniel Edward Pilarczyk

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Daniel Edward Pilarczyk
Senior posting

See	Cincinnati
Title	Archbishop of Cincinnati
Period in office	October 30, 1982—Present
Predecessor	Joseph Cardinal Bernardin †
Personal
Date of birth	August 12, 1934
Place of birth	Dayton, Ohio

Daniel Edward Pilarczyk (born 1934) is the current Archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati. He was appointed Archbishop on October 30, 1982.

1 Biography
2 Leadership and teaching
3 Controversy
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Biography

Pilarczyk was born in Dayton, Ohio on August 12, 1934 and ordained a priest on December 20, 1959. He was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Cincinnati and Titular Bishop of Hodelm on November 12, 1974. On December 20, 1974, he was ordained Bishop.

[edit] Leadership and teaching

Archbishop Pilarczyk has continued his involvement in the Greater Cincinnati community, specifically with the growth of the Archdiocese in multiple counties. He has expressed a fondness for preaching and has worked to address many misconceptions regarding Catholicism. In January of 2006, his book entitled Being Catholic: How We Believe, Practice, And Think was published. Pilarczyk has written at least 10 books on the Catholic religion.

[edit] Controversy

During his tenure as Archbishop, Pilarczyk has faced much criticism (even from local Catholic clergy and laity) for covering up cases of sexual abuse within the Cincinnati Archdiocese. In March of 2002, despite pressure, Pilarczyk announced at a press conference that sex scandals involving priests around the United States were not happening in the Cincinnati Archdiocese. However, he admitted at least one priest and as many as 5 employees accused of sexually exploiting children were still working for the archdiocese. After Hamilton County Prosecutor Mike Allen announced that his office would investigate, at least 5 boxes of documents requested by prosecutors were turned over by the archdiocese. On November 20, 2003, Pilarczyk pleaded no contest on behalf of the Cincinnati Archdiocese to five misdemeanor counts that the archdiocese failed to report sex abuse cases by clergy (between 1978-1982) to authorities. This marked the first criminal conviction of a church institution in the United States.^{[citation needed]} The archdiocese was fined $10,000 and agreed to other terms established by the Hamilton County court in Cincinnati.