Daniel Robert Jenky, CSC (born March 3, 1947) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Peoria in Illinois from 2002 until his retirement in 2022.

[2] Jenky was assigned as rector of St. Matthew's Cathedral in South Bend, Indiana, and pastor of the parish.

In an April 2012 "Men's March" homily, Jenky denounced the federal Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama, and members of the U.S. Senate.

The faculty signers asked Jenky to either retract his statement or resign from the Notre Dame board of fellows.

Some called for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service to investigate Jenky because the diocese, as a tax-exempt, non-profit entity, was supposed to refrain from overtly political comments.

Rabbi Daniel Bogard of Peoria's Anshai Emeth Congregation said that Jenky was engaging in demagoguery and using the Holocaust "as a partisan political ploy that trivializes the memory of 13 million innocents killed.

[citation needed] In 2002, Jenky started the canonization cause of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, a Peoria native.

He requested that the Archdiocese of New York moved Sheen's remains, resting in St. Patrick's Cathedral in Manhattan, to Peoria.

[13] On August 21, 2018, Jenky made these remarks regarding the 2018 grand jury report in Pennsylvania regarding sexual abuse by priests:I was truly saddened and deeply disturbed by the recent report from Pennsylvania of the sexual abuse of minors and the failures of some bishops to address of this crisis.