{{Short description|American Catholic Bishop of Syracuse}} {{Infobox Christian leader | type = | honorific-prefix = | name = Daniel Joseph Curley | honorific-suffix = | title = Bishop of Syracuse | image = Bish. D.J. Curley LCCN2014719050.tif | image_size = | alt = | caption = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | church = | archdiocese = | province = | metropolis = | diocese = | see = | appointed = February 19, 1923 | elected = | term = | term_start = 1923 | quashed = | term_end = 1932 | predecessor = | successor = | opposed = | other_post = <!---------- Orders The Orders section may be omitted in favour of Template:Ordination for those clergy claiming Apostolic succession, such as Catholics, Orthodox and Anglicans. ----------> | ordination = May 19, 1894 | ordained_by = Lucido Maria Parocchi | consecration = May 1, 1923 | consecrated_by = Patrick Joseph Hayes | birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|06|16}} | birth_place = New York City, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1932|08|03|1869|06|16}} | death_place = Syracuse, New York, US | buried = Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception | religion = Roman Catholic | residence = | parents = Michael and Margaret (née Swan) Curley | spouse = <!-- or | partner = --> | children = | occupation = | previous_post = | profession = | alma_mater = | signature = | coat_of_arms = | motto = | education = St. Joseph's Seminary<br>St. Francis Xavier College | signature_alt = | coat_of_arms_alt = <!---------- Sainthood ----------> | feast_day = | venerated = | saint_title = | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | shrine = | suppressed_date = <!---------- Other ----------> | other = | honorific_prefix = His Excellency, The Most Reverend }}

'''Daniel Joseph Curley''' (June 16, 1869 &ndash; August 3, 1932) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as bishop of Syracuse in New York State from 1923 until his death in 1932.

==Biography==

=== Early life === Daniel Curley was born on June 16, 1869, in New York City to Michael and Margaret (née Swan) Curley.<ref name="diocese">{{cite news |work=Roman Catholic Diocese of Syracuse |title=Most Rev. Daniel Joseph Curley |url=http://www.syrdio.org/bishop.asp?path=Bishop&action=viewBishop&BishopID=17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090609151729/http://www.syrdio.org/bishop.asp?path=Bishop&action=viewBishop&BishopID=17 |archivedate=2009-06-09 }}</ref> He studied at St. Francis Xavier College in Queens and afterwards St. Joseph's Seminary in Troy, New York, While at St. Josephs, he befriended another seminarian, Patrick Joseph Hayes who would later become archbishop of New York.<ref name="nytimes">{{cite news|date=1932-08-04|work=The New York Times|title=Bishop D.J. Curley dies in Syracuse}}</ref> Curley furthered his studies at the Pontifical North American College in Rome.

=== Priesthood === Curley was ordained to the priesthood in Rome for the Archdiocese of New York by Cardinal Lucido Maria Parocchi on May 19, 1894.<ref name="transcript">{{Cite web |title=The Catholic Transcript 11 August 1932 — The Catholic News Archive |url=https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=CTR19320811-01.2.120&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250222085504/https://thecatholicnewsarchive.org/?a=d&d=CTR19320811-01.2.120&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------- |archive-date=2025-02-22 |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=thecatholicnewsarchive.org |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Bishop Daniel Joseph Curley [Catholic-Hierarchy] |url=https://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bcurley.html |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=www.catholic-hierarchy.org}}</ref>

Following his return to New York, he served as a curate at the Holy Name Parish in Manhattan.<ref name="diocese" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Holy Name |url=https://holynamenyc.org/ |access-date=2025-09-28 |website=Holy Name |language=en}}</ref> Archbishop Michael Corrigan named Curley as his secretary in 1901. The next year, Curley was named the founding pastor of Our Lady of Solace Parish in the Bronx.<ref name="nytimes" /> In 1921, Hayes suggested that the Vatican appoint Curley as an auxiliary bishop of New York.<ref name="nytimes" />

=== Bishop of Syracuse === On February 19, 1923, Curley was appointed the third bishop of Syracuse by Pope Pius XI. He received his episcopal consecration on May 1, 1923 from Archbishop Hayes, with Bishops Edmund Gibbons and William Turner serving as co-consecrators, at St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan.<ref name=":0" /> Edward Joseph Hanna, archbishop of San Francisco, preached the sermon.<ref name="transcript" />

During Curley's nine-year tenure in Syracuse, the Catholic population of the diocese increased from 173,200 to 201,152.<ref name="transcript" /> He established a Society for the Propagation of the Faith, 28 parishes, 18 schools, Loretto Rest, and Our Lady of Lourdes Memorial Hospital in Binghamton, New York. At his invitation, the Sisters of Perpetual Rosary opened the first home for cloistered nuns in Syracuse.<ref name="diocese" />

One of Curley's final official acts was the approval of financing for a new parish in Lyncourt, New York. It was later named St. Daniel's Parish in his honor.<ref>[https://www.stdaniel.com/history "History of St. Daniel Church]</ref>

=== Death and legacy === Curley died from heart disease at age 63 in Syracuse, New York.<ref name="nytimes" /> He is buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception.<ref name="diocese" />

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