Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy

Daniel Thomas Turley Murphy is an American born bishop in the Catholic Church and is the bishop emeritus of the Roman [Catholic Diocese of Chulucanas|Diocese of Chulucanas] in the Piura Region of Peru, serving from 2000 until April 2, 2020.

Biography

Daniel Turley was born in Chicago, Illinois to Anne and John Turley; he has a brother and a sister. He attended high school at Mendel Catholic High School in Chicago, graduating in 1960 and participating in the math club and baseball. He professed simple vows in the Order of St. Augustine in [the United States#Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel (Central/Midwestern Province)|Province of Our Mother of Good Counsel] in the Order of St. Augustine on September 4, 1961 and took solemn vows three years later. He was ordained a Catholic priest on December 21, 1968 and began to work as a missionary in Peru the following year. During the internal conflict in Peru in the 1980s and 1990s, Turley worked in the Pacaipampa District and served as local superior at the same time that Robert Prevost, the future Leo XIV, was working in the area. In 1987, the Augustinians created a specific vicariate serving the church in Peru with Turley in charge. Members of the Shining Path attacked Turley's parish church, as well as bombing the mayor's office of the town.

On May 25, 1996, Pope John Paul II named Turley as the coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Chulucanas. He was ordained a bishop on August 17, 1996, by Bishop Juan Conway McNabb, OSA of Chulucanas. The co-consecrators were Archbishop Fortunato Baldelli the Apostolic Nuncio 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. In 2005, Turley attempted to mediate conflict between Peruvian miners in Piura and the mining company when a protest march of miners was stopped by police and seven civilians were killed. His advocacy against foreign interests mining in Peru prompted death threats.
He was elected to the Permanent Council of the Peruvian Bishops' Conference. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by Villanova University.
In February 2020, Pope Francis accepted Turley's resignation from his office as bishop of Chulucanas and appointed Cristóbal Bernardo Mejía Corral as his successor. Upon retirement he returned to his native Chicago and works with Augustinian pre-novices as well as in the Confirmation program for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
In 2025, he was named the rector of the National Shrine of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini.