Daniel Henry Mueggenborg

Daniel Henry Mueggenborg (born April 15, 1962) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who has been serving as bishop for the Diocese of Reno in Nevada since 2021.

Mueggenborg belonged to the Boy Scouts of America and received the Eagle Scout Award in 1980.

Mueggenborg entered Oklahoma State University (OSU) to pursue a science degree.

He later said that he did not want to become a priest at that point.

However, in the spring of 1981, he served at a mass in Oklahoma that was celebrated by Reverend Stanley Rother, a missionary serving in Guatemala.

On July 28, 1981, Rother was murdered in Guatemala by a right-wing death squad.

According to Mueggenborg, Rother's service and martyrdom for the Catholic Church inspired him to pursue the priesthood.

After graduating from OSU in 1984 with a Bachelor of Science degree in geology, he entered St. Meinrad Seminary in Saint Meinrad, Indiana.

Mueggenborg in 1985 traveled to Rome to attend the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

As a seminarian, he worked alongside the Missionaries of Charity to serve the poor in Rome.

On one occasion, he celebrated a mass attended by the founder of the order, Mother Teresa.

Back in Oklahoma for a summer, Mueggenborg volunteered as a hospital minister in intensive care units and cardiac wards at St. John Medical Center in Tulsa.

He spent a second summer in Mugumu, Tanzania, working alongside Maryknoll Missionaries.

Mueggenborg was ordained to the diaconate on April 6, 1989, at St. Peter's Basilica in Rome; he was granted an audience the next day with Pope John Paul II at the Apostolic Palace in Vatican City.

He received a Bachelor of Sacred Theology from the Gregorian University in 1989

On July 14, 1989, Mueggenborg was ordained by Archbishop Eusebius Beltran to the priesthood for the Diocese of Tulsa at Holy Family Cathedral in Tulsa.

After his 1989 ordination, the diocese assigned Mueggenborg as an associate pastor at Church of St. Mary Parish in Tulsa.

He was transferred to perform the same role in 1990 to St. John Parish in Bartlesville, Oklahoma.

That same year, he earned his Licentiate in Sacred Theology in biblical theology from in 1990 Mueggenborg returned to Tulsa in 1991 to become chaplain at Bishop Kelley High School and associate pastor of Saint Pius X Parish.

He would hold both positions for the next four years.

Mueggenborg was moved from Tulsa in 1994 to serve as administrator pro-tempore of Saint Cecilia Parish in Claremont, Oklahoma, then in 1996 to Bixby, Oklahoma, to be pastor of Magdalene Parish.

He returned to Bartlesville in 2001 to serve as pastor at St. Clement Parish for the next five years.

The Vatican named Mueggenborg a monsignor in 2004.

Mueggenborg went to Rome in 2006 to work as assistant director of formation advising at the Pontifical North American College for one year.

Additionally, Mueggenborg served on the boards of directors for Ascension Healthcare and Catholic Charities of Tulsa.

He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Seattle in Washington State from 2017 to 2021.

Daniel Mueggenborg was born in Okarche, Oklahoma, to Paul Bernard and Dolores Lucille (née Kerntke) Mueggenborg.

He received his early education at the parochial school at St. Francis Xavier Parish in Stillwater, Oklahoma, where he attended mass and served as an altar boy.

Pope Francis appointed Mueggenborg as an auxiliary bishop for the Archdiocese of Seattle on April 6, 2017.

On May 31, 2017, he was consecrated by Archbishop J. Peter Sartain at St. James Cathedral in Seattle, with Bishops David Konderla and Eusebio de la Luz Elizondo Almaguer serving as co-consecrators.

On July 20, 2021, Pope Francis appointed Mueggenborg as bishop of the Diocese of Reno, succeeding Bishop Randolph Calvo.

Mueggenborg was installed on September 24, 2021.

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