Lawrence Michael DeFalco (August 25, 1915 – September 22, 1979) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church.
[1] His father was originally from Atena Lucana, Italy and worked as a streetcar company foreman.
[2] However, he was forced to enter St. John's Home Mission Seminary at Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1935, because the Diocese of Pittsburgh to the Great Depression.
[1] He briefly served as a curate at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Dallas before being sent in 1953 to study at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, from where he obtained a Licentiate of Canon Law.
[4] After being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, DeFalco resigned as Bishop of Amarillo on August 28, 1979.