Walter A. Hurley

Walter Allison Hurley (born May 30, 1937) is a Canadian-born American Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Grand Rapids from 2005 to 2018.

Hurley also served as Maida's delegate and project manager for the construction of the Saint John Paul II National Shrine in Washington, D.C., from 1995 to 2001.

[2]Maida performed Hurley's episcopal consecration at the Cathedral of the Most Blessed Sacrament in Detroit on August 12, 2003, with Szoka and Bishop Walter Schoenherr serving as co-consecrators.

However, Pope Francis only accepted the resignation on April 18, 2013, when he appointed Reverend David Walkowiak as the new bishop of Grand Rapids.

In February 2019, Hurley removed Reverend Edwin Dwyer as parochial administrator of Our Lady of Peace Parish in Bay City and as chaplain at Saginaw Valley State University.