David B. Thompson

Styles of David Thompson
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop
Posthumous style	not applicable

David Bernard Thompson (born May 28, 1923) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Charleston from 1990 to 1999.

Biography

David Thompson was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. After studying at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood, he was ordained to the priesthood on May 27, 1950.

On April 22, 1989, Thompson was appointed Coadjutor Bishop of Charleston, South Carolina by Pope John Paul II. He received his episcopal consecration on the following May 24 from Archbishop Pio Laghi, with Bishop Norbert Gaughan and Archbishop Eugene Marino, S.S.J., serving as co-consecrators. He assumed as his episcopal motto: Christi Impetus Pacis, meaning, "Working for the Peace of Christ."

Thompson later succeeded Ernest Leo Unterkoefler as the eleventh Bishop of Charleston upon the latter's resignation on February 22, 1990. His tenure was marked by the Synod of Charleston, which lasted from 1992 to 1995;^[1] it was the first diocesan synod held there since 1958.

Thompson resigned from his post as Bishop on July 12, 1999, after nine years of service and surpassing the mandatory retirement age of 75.

References

1. ^ Diocese of Charleston. History of the Diocese of Charleston

External links

• Catholic-Hierarchy

Preceded by Ernest Leo Unterkoefler

Bishop of Charleston 1990–1999

Succeeded by Robert Joseph Baker

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Name	Thompson, David B.
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Date of birth	May 29, 1923
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