Michael Duca

Styles of Michael Duca
Reference style	The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Monsignor
Posthumous style	none

Michael Gerard Duca (born 5 June 1952) is the Bishop of Shreveport since his appointment by Pope Benedict XVI on 1 April 2008.^[1][2]

He attended elementary and secondary school in Dallas. He attended Holy Trinity Seminary 1970-78, and while there received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master of divinity degree in theology from the University of Dallas. The seminary and the university are collaborative institutions; the campuses are next to one another. The university grants degrees to seminarians.

Duca was ordained a priest on 29 April 1978 in Dallas, Texas. He was educated in the Angelicum training as a canonist.

He served the Diocese of Dallas as a vocations director, chaplain at Dallas' Southern Methodist University both from 1985 to 1992. Before his appointment as bishop he was the rector of Dallas' Holy Trinity Seminary.

He was raised to the episcopate on 19 May. He was consecrated bishop of the Shreveport diocese at the Shreveport Convention Center, with approximately 3,000 people in attendance.

Duca is one of the regular panelists on the American Religious Townhall. Diocese of Shreveport celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Shreveport Convention Center.

References

1. ^ Msgr. Michael Duca appointed as bishop for Diocese of Shreveport Catholic News Agency, April 1, 2008
2. ^ http://www.catholic-hierarchy.org/bishop/bducam.html

Preceded by William Benedict Friend

Bishop of Shreveport 1 April 2008–incumbent

Succeeded by incumbent

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Name	Duca, Michael
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Date of birth	5 June 1952
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