Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy

Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy O.S.A. ( Born January 25, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois, USA ) is an American priest, Bishop of chulucanas in Peru and environmentalists.

Life and work

He was born in Chicago as a descendant of Irish immigrants. In 1960 he joined the Augustinian order. He was sent to Mexico to study there and then ordained a priest in 1968. In the course of the mission call of Pope Paul VI. for Latin America, he went to Peru, where he worked as a missionary priest in the Diocese of chulucanas / Peru.

The priest was also to Monsignor appointed coadjutor bishop of the diocese in 1996 first, before he was appointed on 28 October 2000 by Pope John Paul II for the second Bishop of chulucanas as the successor of Juan Conway McNabb, who consecrated him bishop.

His work as environmentalists brought him not only friends: during the uprisings of the indigenous population against mining projects in their region, trying to serve as an intermediary diocesan Bishop Turley. This made him at the corporations to the enemy and brought him several death threats.

Award

  • Peruvian Peace Prize, 2011.

Swell

  • Http://www.austinians.net/index.php?mact=News/cntnt01, detail, 08cntnt01articlei = 46 & cntn01returnid = 39
  • Http://www.diocesisdechulucanos.org/base/bishop.html
  • Http://www.midwestaugustinians.org/missionturl.html
  • Entry about Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy on catholic - hierarchy.org (English)
  • Roman Catholic Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Roman Catholic bishop ( 21st century)
  • Augustinian hermit
  • Americans
  • Born in 1943
  • Man
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