Daniel F. Walsh
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| Reference style | The Most Reverend |
| Spoken style | Your Excellency |
| Religious style | Monsignor |
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Daniel Francis Walsh (born October 2, 1937) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He is the fifth and current Bishop of Santa Rosa in California.
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Daniel Walsh was born in San Francisco, California, and was ordained to the priesthood on March 30, 1963, in the Mission Dolores Basilica. He then served as associate pastor of St. Pius Parish in Redwood City until 1964, whence he began a year's study at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.
From 1966 to 1970, he taught at Junípero Serra High School in San Mateo. Walsh served as assistant chancellor for the Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1970 to 1976, and then as private secretary to Archbishop Joseph McGucken until 1978. He became chancellor of the archdiocese in 1978, and its vicar general in 1981.
On July 30, 1981, Walsh was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of San Francisco and Titular Bishop of Tigias by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following September 24 from Archbishop John Quinn, with Bishops Michael Kenny and Joseph Ferrario serving as co-consecrators, in St. Mary's Cathedral. Walsh was later named Bishop of Reno-Las Vegas, Nevada, on June 9, 1987, and became simply Bishop of Las Vegas when the diocese was separated on March 21, 1995.
He returned to California upon his nomination as the fifth Bishop of Santa Rosa on April 11, 2000, being formally installed as such on May 22 of that same year.
Within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Walsh currently chairs the Committee on World Missions, and sits on the Committee on Evangelization and Catechesis.
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| Preceded by Norman Francis McFarland |
Bishop of Reno-Las Vegas 1987–1995 |
Succeeded by Philip Francis Straling |
| Preceded by none |
Bishop of Las Vegas 1995–2000 |
Succeeded by Joseph Anthony Pepe |
| Preceded by George Patrick Ziemann |
Bishop of Santa Rosa in California 2000–present |
Succeeded by incumbent |
