Daniel M. Buechlein

Daniel Mark Buechlein, OSB (April 20, 1938 – January 25, 2018) was a Benedictine monk and an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.

He served as the third bishop of the Diocese of Memphis in Tennessee from 1987 until he was appointed the fifth archbishop of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis in Indiana from July 14, 1992.

In 1995, Buechlein was appointed co-moderator of the Disciples of Christ-Roman Catholic International Dialogue and as a consultor to the Congregation for the Clergy in the Roman Curia in 2003.

In 2001, Buechlein spoke out against the upcoming execution of Timothy J. McVeigh, a domestic terrorist who murdered 168 people in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.

[2] In the US Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), Buechlein served as chair of the Ad Hoc Committee to Oversee the Use of the Catechism.

[8] In October 2012, Pope Benedict XVI named Archbishop Joseph Tobin as his successor; he was installed on December 3, 2012, in the cathedral.