Bishop Daniel Felton

Bishop Daniel J. Felton is the tenth Bishop of Duluth. He was born February 5, 1955, the son of Carol and the late Ken Felton and the oldest of five children. He attended St. Edward School in Mackville, Wisconsin and Appleton West in Appleton. He holds a bachelor’s degree from St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin, in religious studies and psychology; a master’s degree in theology from St. John University, Collegeville; and a licentiate of sacred theology and a master’s degree in social communications from the Gregorian University in Rome. Bishop Felton was ordained a priest on June 13, 1981, by Bishop Aloysius Wycislo for the Green Bay Diocese. His parish assignments in the Diocese of Green Bay included Holy Innocents in Manitowoc, St. Raphael the Archangel in Oshkosh, and St. Francis of Assisi in Manitowoc. Bishop Felton was also the director of affiliate affairs for the Catholic Telecommunications Network of America. Bishop Felton served in Green Bay as a member of the diocesan College of Consultors, Presbyteral Council, Bishop Advisory Council, Personnel Board, Diocesan Finance Council, St. Norbert Board of Trustees, and Silver Lake College Board of Directors. He was also a member of the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. At the time of his appointment as Bishop of Duluth in 2021, he had been serving the Green Bay Diocese as vicar general and moderator of the curia since 2014. Bishop Felton was ordained May 20, 2021, at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Duluth. The principal co-consecrator was Archbishop Bernard A. Hebda of the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, and his co-consecrators were Bishop David L. Ricken of Green Bay and Bishop Thomas J. Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois. As Bishop, he serves as a member of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Child and Youth Protection Committee.