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3 unusual facts about Donald Walter Trautman


Donald Walter Trautman

He was ordained to the priesthood in Innsbruck on April 7, 1962, for the Diocese of Buffalo.

In June 2011, Bishop Trautman turned 75, at which point Canon Law requests that a bishop tender his resignation to Pope Benedict XVI.

Bishop Trautman's successor, Lawrence T. Persico, was named as the tenth bishop of Erie on July 31, 2012 at which point Pope Benedict XVI officially accepted Trautman's resignation.



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