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{{Short description|American Sedevacantist bishop (1951–2022)}}
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| alma_mater = [[The International Seminary of Saint Pius X]], [[Econe]], Switzerland
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| bishop 1 = [[Rodrigo Ribeiro da Silva|Rodrigo da Silva]]
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'''Daniel Lytle Dolan''' (28 May 1951 – 26 April 2022) was an American [[Traditionalist Catholic]] bishop.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=N_MNAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t3gDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6409,2063043&dq=daniel-dolan+bishop&hl=en|title=Some Catholics hold fast to tradition|date=27 December 2003|work=[[St. Petersburg Times]]|page=8|access-date=26 February 2011}}</ref>

==Biography==
===Priesthood===
[[Marcel Lefebvre]] directed the [[International Seminary of Saint Pius X|Seminary of Saint Pius X]]'s American priests to follow the 1962 [[Roman Missal|liturgical books]]. Dolan and eight other American priests refused to do this. On 27 April 1983, these nine priests, along with some seminarians who were sympathetic to them, were promptly expelled from the [[Society of Saint Pius X]] (SSPX) by Lefebvre, for their refusal to use the 1962 Missal and for other reasons, such as their resistance to Lefebvre's order that priests of the SSPX must accept the decrees of nullity handed down by diocesan marriage tribunals, and their disapproval of the SSPX's policy of accepting into the society new members who had been ordained to the priesthood according to the revised sacramental rites of Paul VI. Almost immediately, these priests formed the [[Society of Saint Pius V]] (SSPV).<ref name=cuneo>Cuneo, Michael W.[https://books.google.com/books?id=8OL9tyvN5YcC&dq=fr+clarence+kelly&pg=PA102 ''The Smoke of Satan: Conservative and Traditionalist Dissent in Contemporary American Catholicism'', JHU Press, 1999, pg. 96]{{ISBN|9780801862656}}</ref>

===Episcopacy===

Dolan was consecrated a bishop by Bishop [[Mark Pivarunas]], [[Superior General]] of the [[Sedevacantism|sedevacantist]] [[Congregation of Mary Immaculate Queen]], on 30 November 1993, at Saint Gertrude the Great, [[West Chester Township, Butler County, Ohio|West Chester, Ohio]].<ref name="Adsum">''[https://www.cmri.org/adsum/adsum-2016-10.pdf Adsum]'' (October 2016). ''Mater Dei'' Seminary. Retrieved 20 August 2021.</ref>

On 11 May 1999, in [[Acapulco]], [[Guerrero]], [[Mexico]], Dolan assisted Pivarunas as co-consecrator in the episcopal consecration of Martín Dávila Gandara of the ''Sociedad Sacerdotal Trento'' (Priestly Union of Trent).<ref name=Adsum/> 

On 22 February 2018, in [[Brooksville, Florida]], Dolan assisted as Bishop [[Donald Sanborn]] as co-consecrator in the episcopal consecration of Joseph Selway of the Roman Catholic Institute.<ref>Jarvis, Edward, Sede Vacante: the Life and Legacy of Archbishop Thục, Apocryphile Press, Berkeley CA, 2018, pp. 107-110, 143-144</ref>

On 29 September 2021, Dolan consecrated Brazilian Father Rodrigo Ribeiro da Silva, a former priest of the SSPX-Resistance, as a bishop for Mexico and South America.<ref>Most Rev. Daniel Dolan, [http://www.sgg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/20210829.pdf "The Bishop’s Corner"], SGG Parish Bulletin, 29 August 2021, p. 3.</ref>

Bishop Dolan and Fr Joseph Collins were instrumental in converting Ohio State Death Row inmate Joseph Murphy to Catholicism. Dolan baptized and confirmed Murphy after a period of religious instruction and corresponded and regularly conferred sacraments upon Joseph Murphy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=A história de Dom Daniel Dolan & Joseph Murphy por Joseph Dimas Murphy - Seminário São José |url=https://www.seminariosaojose.org/artigos/a-hist%C3%B3ria-de-dom-daniel-dolan-joseph-murphy |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20241202175727/https://www.seminariosaojose.org/artigos/a-hist%C3%B3ria-de-dom-daniel-dolan-joseph-murphy |archive-date=2024-12-02 |access-date=2025-10-22 |website=www.seminariosaojose.org}}</ref>

On 26 April 2022, Dolan suddenly died.<ref name="death">{{Cite tweet |author= Fr. Stephen McKenna |user= RevMcKenna |number= 1519077020025724935 |date= 26 April 2022 |title= It seems that somehow word has gotten out faster than we ourselves could get it out. I regret to confirm/inform everyone that Bp. Dolan has passed away suddenly today, April 26, Mother of Good Counsel. Please pray for his soul and for all of us. |location= West Chester, OH |access-date= |link= |url-status= }}</ref>

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