David Leon Toups (born 26 March 1971) is an American Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Beaumont since 2020.

[2][3] After his 1997 ordination, the diocese assigned Toups as parochial vicar at St. Francis Cabrini Parish in Spring Hill, Florida and as a member of the presbyteral council from 1997 to 2001.

[2] In 2002, Toups returned to Rome to study at the University of St. Thomas Aquinas, receiving a Doctor of Sacred Theology degree in 2004.

Back in Florida in 2004, he was appointed to the faculty at St. Vincent de Paul Regional Seminary as a professor of sacramental and liturgical theology and[4] as assistant dean of students.

[4][1] In 2007, Toups left St. Vincent de Paul to become associate director of the Secretariat of Clergy, Consecrated Life and Vocations at the USCCB in Washington D.C.[5] That position ended in 2010 when the Diocese of St. Petersburg named him as pastor of Christ the King Parish in Tampa, Florida.