Daniel W. Herzog

Herzog was born in Ogdensburg, New York,[4] and raised in the Roman Catholic Church.[5] In 1964 he graduated from St. Bonaventure University.[6][7] He married and had five children. He and his wife joined the Episcopal Church in the late 1960s. Herzog studied at Nashotah House, graduating in 1970,[7] and was ordained a priest in the Episcopal Church. In 1971 he received a master's degree in education from St. Lawrence University.[7]

He served as director of personnel at the St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center in Ogdensburg while serving as assistant rector of an Episcopal parish there.[4] He later served as Rector of Christ Church, Schenectady.[4]

In 1997 he was elected Coadjutor-Bishop of Albany; he was elected on the first ballot.[8] The following year he succeeded as 8th Bishop of Albany when Bishop David Standish Ball retired. In 2003 he issued a pastoral letter opposing the election of Gene Robinson, a gay man, as Bishop of New Hampshire, and opposing the blessing of sexual relationships outside marriage.[9]

Herzog retired as Bishop of Albany on January 31, 2007. He was succeeded by Bishop William Love, who had been elected coadjutor bishop on March 25, 2006.[10]

In March 2007, Herzog and his wife Carol joined the Roman Catholic Church.[5][11] He was the third bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States to become a Roman Catholic, the others being Levi Silliman Ives in 1852 and Frederick Joseph Kinsman in 1919.[12] Herzog explained his conversion in a letter sent to his successor Bishop Love on March 19, 2007.[13] Herzog's predecessor in Albany, Bishop Ball, expressed concern at Herzog's conversion.[6][11] His successor, Bishop Love, stated that Herzog and his wife would continue to be welcome at diocesan events.[14]

In April 2010, presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori promulgated his restoration to the ordained ministry of the Episcopal Church.[15] His return to ECUSA was page one news.[16]

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