Daniel Edward Thomas (born June 11, 1959) is an American prelate of the Catholic Church who has been bishop of the Diocese of Toledo in Ohio since 2014.

[2] After his ordination, the archdiocese assigned him as parochial vicar of Saint Joseph's Parish in Aston, Pennsylvania.

[1] Thomas stayed in Rome for the next 15 years, serving as an official of the Congregation for Bishops in the Roman Curia.

[1] Thomas returned to Philadelphia in 2005; at that time, the archdiocese assigned him as pastor of Our Lady of the Assumption Parish in Strafford, Pennsylvania.

He received his episcopal consecration on July 26, 2006, from Cardinal Justin Rigali, with Archbishops John Foley and Edwin O'Brien serving as co-consecrators, in the Cathedral-Basilica of Sts.

In 2007, a man known as "Ben" reported to the archdiocese that he had been sexually abused when he was a child by Reverend Joseph J. Gallagher.

[7] On August 20, 2020, Thomas announced that Reverend Michael Zacharias, a priest at St. Peter's Parish in Mansfield, Ohio, had been arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on sexual abuse charges.

[9] In December 2022, Thomas condemned a proposal by the Toledo City Council to use COVID-19 pandemic relief funds to pay for out-of-state travel by local woman seeing abortion procedures.