Background
David John Walkowiak was born in East Cleveland, Ohio on June 18, 1952 to Doctor John and Virginia Walkowiak.
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He attended Saint Bernadette school in Westlake, Ohio and, later, Cleveland"s Saint Ignatius High School.
Career
He is of Polish descent. He has three sisters. Walkowiak earned his Bachelor of Arts in government and international studies from the University of Notre Dame in 1975 and Masters of Divinity four years later from Saint Mary Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio.
Beginning in the early 1980"s, he studied at the Catholic University of America in Washington, District of Columbia, earning his licentiate of Canon Law in 1984 and his doctorate in 1987.
Walkowiak was ordained to the priesthood by Bishop James A. Hickey for the Diocese of Cleveland on June 9, 1979, and served the diocese as;
Pastoral vicar of Saint Mary Parish in Lorain, Ohio (1979-1984)
Vice-Chancellor of the Diocese of Cleveland (1988-2006)
Professor of Canon Law at Saint Mary Seminary in Wickliffe, Ohio (1988-2006)
Pastor of Saint Joan of Arc Parish in Chagrin Falls, Ohio (2006-2013)
On April 18, 2013, Pope Francis accepted the resignation of the Diocese of Grand Rapids" eleventh bishop, Walter A. Hurley, and appointed Walkowiak as his successor. He was consecrated to the episcopate and installed as the diocese"s bishop by Detroit metropolitan archbishop Allen Vigneron on his 60th birthday (June 18, 2013) at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew.
Assisting Vigneron as co-consecrators were Hurely, Apostolic Nuncio Carlo Maria Viganò, and twenty other American bishops.
Membership
Additionally, he was a member of the Council of Priests of the Ecclesiastical Province of Cincinnati (Ohio) and served as an associate Judge of its Court of Appeals.
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