who is the catholic bishop of washington dc
Cardinal Donald Wuerl
title: Donald Wuerl text: Donald Wuerl Donald William Wuerl (born November 12, 1940) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church, and was Archbishop of Washington, D.C. from 2006 to 2018. He was elevated by Pope John Paul II to serve as Auxiliary Bishop of Seattle (1986–1987), and Bishop of Pittsburgh (1988–2006). He was named Archbishop of Washington by Pope Benedict XVI and made a Cardinal by him in 2010. Wuerl is the subject of controversy due to a 2018 Pennsylvania grand jury report that said he improperly handled sexual abuse cases during his time in Pittsburgh. Wuerl has denied the allegations. On October title: Theodore Edgar McCarrick text: Theodore Edgar McCarrick Theodore Edgar McCarrick (born July 7, 1930) is a retired American prelate of the Catholic Church and a former cardinal. He served as Archbishop of Washington from 2001 to 2006 and was elevated to the cardinalate in February 2001. Pope Francis accepted his resignation from the College of Cardinals on July 28, 2018, after a series of sexual misconduct allegations. An only child, McCarrick was born in New York City to Theodore E. and Margaret T. (née McLaughlin) McCarrick. His father was a ship captain who died from tuberculosis when McCarrick was three years old, and his title: Washington National Cathedral text: Washington National Cathedral The Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the City and Diocese of Washington, commonly known as Washington National Cathedral, is a cathedral of the Episcopal Church located in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States. The structure is of Neo-Gothic design closely modeled on English Gothic style of the late fourteenth century. It is both the second-largest church building in the United States, and the fourth-tallest structure in Washington, D.C. The cathedral is the seat of both the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church, Michael Bruce Curry, and the Bishop of the Diocese title: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington text: on November 15, 1947, the archdiocese received its first residential archbishop, with the appointment of Patrick Aloysius O'Boyle. Donald William Cardinal Wuerl served as the most recent ordinary of the Archdiocese. Wuerl resigned as Archbishop of Washington on October 12, 2018 in the wake of revelations about his poor handling of incidents of sex abuse when he served as Bishop of Pittsburgh. However, Wuerl will still lead the Archdiocese as apostolic administrator until a successor is found. On March 25, 1634, the first Catholic Mass in the English-speaking colonies was celebrated by Fr. Andrew White, S.J., on St. Clement's Island, title: Martin Holley text: Martin Holley Martin David Holley (born December 31, 1954) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Bishop of Memphis, Tennessee, from 2016 to 2018. He was an auxiliary bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., from 2004 to 2016. Holley was born in Pensacola, Florida, and graduated from Tate High School in 1973; while a student there he was a basketball standout and active in student government. He graduated in 1975 from Faulkner State Junior College in Bay Minette, Alabama, with an Associate of Arts degree in general studies, and from Alabama State University