Donald Walter Trautman

Donald Walter Trautman
Donald Trautman
Bishop of Erie
Church Roman Catholic
See Erie
In Office 12 June 1990 – present
Predecessor Michael Joseph Murphy
Successor Incumbent
Orders
Ordination 7 April 1962
Personal details
Born June 24, 1936 (1936-06-24) (age 75)
Buffalo, New York
Previous post Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo

Donald Walter Trautman (born June 24, 1936) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as Bishop of Erie.

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Biography

Donald Trautman was born in Buffalo, New York, and attended Niagara University in Lewiston.[1] He studied theology under Karl Rahner at the University of Innsbruck in Austria, from where he obtained his Licentiate of Sacred Theology in 1962. He was ordained to the priesthood in Innsbruck on April 7, 1962, for the Diocese of Buffalo. Upon his return, he was successively made a parish]administrator in Collins and associate pastor in Buffalo.

He later studied biblical language for one year at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., continuing his post-graduate work in Rome at the Pontifical Biblical Institute, earning his licentiate in Scripture in 1965. During his studies in Rome, Trautman served as a peritus, or theological expert, at the Second Vatican Council. In 1966, he earned his doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas.[1]

From 1966 to 1973, he taught Scripture and theology at St. John Vianney Seminary, now Christ the King Seminary, where he also served as dean of students. Trautman worked as a retreat master for religious communities, and vice-president and president of Buffalo's Pastoral Council. He was private secretary to Bishop Edward Head, and later named Chancellor (1973) and Vicar General (1974) of Buffalo. He was raised to the rank of an Honorary Prelate of His Holiness in 1975.

On February 27, 1985, Trautman was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Buffalo and Titular Bishop of Sassura by Pope John Paul II. He received episcopal consecration on the following April 16 from Bishop Head, with Bishops Bernard Joseph McLaughlin and Stanislaus Joseph Brzana serving as co-consecrators, at St. Joseph Cathedral. After a period of pastoral work, he became rector of Christ the King Seminary.

Trautman was later named Bishop of Diocese of Erie in Erie, Pennsylvania on June 2, 1990. As Bishop of Erie, he has energized the diocesan youth and vocational programs, renovated the interior of St. Peter Cathedral, and established a diocesan Deposit and Loan Fund and a retirement home for clergy dedicated in honor of his predecessor, Bishop Michael Joseph Murphy.

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Donald Trautman
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Reference style The Most Reverend
Spoken style Your Excellency
Religious style Monsignor
Posthumous style none

He is an a participant of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, having served as chairman of the Committees on Doctrine, USCCB Financial Audit, and currently Liturgy. Bishop Trautman has also been the episcopal moderator of the Apostleship of the Sea and of the Diocesan Fiscal Management Conference.

The April 4, 2007 edition of L'Osservatore Romano accidentally announced Bishop Trautman had died when he was confused with former bishop Michael Murphy, who had died April 2.[2] The mistake was also noted by a cartoon in the The Tablet.[2]

He was critical of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum and indicated that those priests who celebrate such a Mass would first need to show that they have the requisite knowledge of its rubrics and of Latin.[3] Trautman has been a vocal proponent of "inclusive language" and was appointed chairman of the Bishops' Committee on the Liturgy (BCL) from 1993-1996 during a period of great controversy and extended debates over the proposed revisions of the "Sacramentary" (Roman Missal) and the revised translation of the Lectionary. The Holy See eventually rejected the Committee's proposed "Sacramentary" in 1998. Bishop Trautman is also on the editorial board of "We Believe!", a group of progressive liturgists organized in 1994 to oppose "roll backs" in liturgical reform.[4]

In June 2011, Bishop Trautman turned 75, at which point Canon Law request that a bishop tender his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI. Trautman will continue serving as Bishop of Erie until the Pope accepts the letter of resignation, which could take anywhere from 6 months to several years.[5]

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Catholic Church titles
Vacant
Title last held by
Vincent Ignatius Kennally
— TITULAR —
Bishop of Sassura
27 February 1985 – 22 June 1990
Vacant
Title next held by
Juozas Tunaitis
Preceded by
Michael Joseph Murphy
Bishop of Erie
12 June 1990 – present
Incumbent

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