Bishop Daniel Joseph Miehm

Bishop Daniel J. Miehm was born on 27 August 1960 in Kitchener. After studying philosophy at Saint Jerome’s University in Waterloo, Ontario, and theology at Saint Augustine Seminary in Toronto, he was awarded a licentiate in canon law from the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas in Rome. He was ordained a priest on 6 May 1989 for the diocese of Hamilton. He has held the following offices: parish vicar of Saint Francis Xavier in Stoney Creek (1989-1992) and of Christ the King Cathedral in Hamilton (1992-1994), vicar of Christ the King Cathedral, Defender of the Bond in the ecclesiastical tribunal of Hamilton, parish priest of Our Lady of Lourdes in Hamilton (1998-2004) and of Saint Ann in Ancaster (2004-2012), parish priest of Saint Benedict in Milton and spiritual assistant of the Saint Thomas More Lawyers’ Guild (2012). He was appointed titular bishop of Gor and auxiliary of the diocese of Hamilton on 20 February 2013, receiving episcopal consecration on the following 7 May. On 10 March 2017 he was appointed bishop of Peterborough, taking possession of the see on the following 19 April.