Dennis Marion Schnurr (born June 21, 1948) is an American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Cincinnati in Ohio from 2009 to 2025 and is now apostolic administrator of the archdiocese pending the installation of his successor.

[1] Schnurr was ordained to the priesthood at St. Anthony Church in Hospers, Iowa, by Bishop Frank Greteman on July 20, 1974, for the Diocese of Sioux City.

[3] In 1985, Schnurr left Sioux City to serve on the staff of the Apostolic Nunciature in Washington, D.C.[4] He was appointed as associate general secretary of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) in 1989.

[6] In November 2018, Schnurr expressed "enormous disappointment" at a Vatican request for the USCCB to delay a vote on tightening procedures for sexual abuses case.

[8][9] In May 2020, Schnurr decided not to renew the contract of Jim Zimmerman, a teacher at Archbishop Alter High School in Kettering, Ohio, because he was part of a same-sex marriage.

[10][11][12] In July 2021, Schnurr said that he disapproved of a town hall being held by US President Joe Biden at Mount Saint Joseph University in Cincinnati, but admitted he had no power to block it.

[16] On February 12, 2025, Pope Francis accepted Schnurr's resignation as Archbishop of Cincinnati and named Chicago Auxiliary Bishop Robert G. Casey to succeed him.

He claimed that the measure would allow doctors to “take the lives of innocent children in the womb while harming women and families in the process.”[23] Voters approved the amendment by a large margin in November 2023.

[26] In an official statement, he explained that the court's decision "disregarded not only the clearly expressed will of the electorate in Ohio and other states," but that is had undermined a notion of matrimony "shared by virtually all cultures" until the very recent past.

[26] In February 2015, Schnurr condemned the 2015 film Fifty Shades of Grey, calling it an attack on marriage, and asked Catholics to boycott it.

[27] Schnurr in April 2018 persuaded the administration of Mercy Health – Clermont Hospital in Batavia, Ohio, to stop the distribution of condoms at their facility.