Michael Duca

His Excellency, The Most Reverend Michael Gerard Duca
Bishop of Shreveport
Church	Roman Catholic
Archdiocese	New Orleans
Diocese	Shreveport
Appointed	April 1, 2008
Installed	May 19, 2008
Predecessor	William Benedict Friend
Orders
Ordination	April 29, 1978 by Thomas Ambrose Tschoepe
Consecration	May 19, 2008 by Alfred Clifton Hughes, Michael Sheehan, and Kevin Farrell
Personal details
Born	(1952-06-05) June 5, 1952 Dallas, Texas
Motto	HOPE IN THE LORD (Spera in Domino)

Styles of Michael Gerard Duca
Reference style	His Excellency The Most Reverend
Spoken style	Your Excellency
Religious style	Bishop

Michael Gerard Duca (born 5 June 1952) is an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who serves as bishop of the Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana since his installation on 19 May 2008.

Biography

Duca attended elementary and secondary school in Dallas and graduated from Bishop Lynch High School in 1970. He attended Holy Trinity Seminary from 1970 to 1978, and while there received a bachelor's degree in psychology and a master of divinity degree in theology from the adjacent University of Dallas.

Duca was ordained a priest on 29 April 1978 in Dallas, Texas. He was educated in the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) training as a canonist.

He served the Diocese of Dallas as a vocations director, chaplain at Dallas' Southern Methodist University both from 1985 to 1992. Before his appointment as bishop he was the rector of Dallas' Holy Trinity Seminary.

He was appointed to Shreveport by Pope Benedict XVI on 1 April 2008 and raised to the episcopate on 19 May. He was consecrated bishop of the Shreveport diocese at the Shreveport Convention Center, with approximately 3,000 people in attendance.

Duca was one of the regular panelists on the American Religious Townhall. Diocese of Shreveport celebrated its 25th anniversary on Saturday, June 11, 2011 at the Shreveport Convention Center.