Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy (born January 25, 1943) is an

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born

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in the

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and has been the bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas in the Piura Region of

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since 2000.

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Daniel Turley was born in

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and professed religious vows in the

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September 4, 1961. He was ordained a Catholic

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on December 21, 1968. On May 25, 1996

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named Turley as the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas. He was ordained a bishop on August 17, 1996, by Bishop

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, OSA of Chulucanas. The co-consecrators were Archbishop

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the

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to Peru and Oscar Rolando Cantuarias Pastor of Piura. He succeeded to the See of Chulucanas upon the resignation of Bishop McNabb on October 28, 2000. He was elected to the Permanent Council of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference. He was awarded an honorary

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