Daniel Dolan

Daniel Lytle Dolan (28 May 1951 – 26 April 2022) was an American Catholic sedevacantist bishop.

Biography

Daniel Lytle Dolan was born on 28 May 1951, in Detroit, Michigan, United States. In 1965, he began his preparation for the priesthood at the archdiocesan minor seminary in Detroit. He continued his studies in the Cistercian Order and at the seminary of the traditionalist Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) in Écône, Switzerland.

In 1973, as a seminarian at Écône, he came to the conclusion that "the only logical explanation" for the New Mass and the alleged heresy of the Second Vatican Council was that Pope Paul VI had lost the Roman pontificate. Thereafter he held the position of sedevacantism.

Priesthood

On 29 June 1976, in Écône, Dolan was ordained a priest by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre of the SSPX. In 1977, Dolan returned to the United States where he would establish more than 35 traditionalist Mass centers.

Lefebvre directed the SSPX's American priests to follow the 1962 liturgical books. Dolan and eight other American priests refused to do these. On 27 April 1983, these nine priests, along with some seminarians who were sympathetic to them, were promptly expelled from the SSPX by Lefebvre, for their refusal to use the 1962 Missal and for other reasons, such as their resistance to Lefebvre's order that priests of the SSPX must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals, and their disapproval of the SSPX's policy of accepting into the society new members who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Paul VI. Almost immediately, these priests formed the Society of Saint Pius V (SSPV).Cuneo, Michael
''The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism'', JHU Press, 1999, pg. 96
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In 1989, Dolan and Father Anthony Cekada (another one of the nine American priests expelled from the SSPX in 1983) left the SSPVRuby Griff. "The Resurrection of the Roman Catholic Church", Chapter Ten, "The Bishops of Marcel Lefebvre and Antonio de Castro Mayer". for reasons such as the Superior General Father Clarence Kelly's rejection of the validity of sedevacantist bishops consecrated by or in the lineage of Bishop Ngô Đình Thục. Other original priests of the SSPV later followed suit. Dolan continued his work at his principal church in West Chester, Ohio, United States.

In 1989, he initiated contacts with the American sedevacantist Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen (CMRI). Subsequent discussions revealed agreement on major theological issues. In 1992, with a view towards assisting clergy formerly belonging to SSPX, as well as Spanish-speaking and French-speaking traditionalists, Bishop Mark Pivarunas of the CMRI asked Dolan to receive episcopal consecration. In 1993, after considerable hesitation, Dolan agreed."Bp. Dolan's Anniversary: Celebrating an Influential Apostolate". Rev. Anthony Cekada. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

Episcopacy

On 30 November 1993, in Saint Gertrude the Great Church, West Chester, Pivarunas consecrated Dolan a bishop."Adsum" (October 2016). ''Mater Dei'' Seminary. Retrieved 20 August 2021.

On 11 May 1999, in Acapulco, Guerrero, Mexico, Dolan assisted as the co-consecrator in Pivarunas' episcopal consecration of Father Martín Dávila Gandara of the '' Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento'' (Priestly Union of Trent).

On 22 February 2018, in Brooksville, Florida, United States, Dolan assisted as a co-consecrator in Bishop Donald Sanborn's episcopal consecration of Father Joseph Selway of the Roman Catholic Institute.

On 29 September 2021, Dolan consecrated Brazilian Father Rodrigo da Silva, a former priest of the SSPX-Resistance, as a bishop for Mexico and South America.

Dolan served at Saint Gertrude the Great Church, as well as in other sedevacantist communities in the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Europe.

On 26 April 2022, Father Stephen McKenna of Saint Gertrude the Great Church announced the sudden death of Bishop Dolan on the same day.Fr. Stephen McKenna

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References

External links

St Gertrude the Great

Traditional Catholic Sermons

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1951 births
2022 deaths
American traditionalist Catholics
People expelled from the Society of St. Pius X
Thục line bishops
Traditionalist Catholic bishops
Sedevacantists
Clergy from Detroit