Fr. Daniel Felton of Wisconsin was announced Wednesday as the new bishop-elect for the Diocese of Duluth, including Catholic churches on the Iron Range, where he is scheduled to be officially installed May 20. Feltonâs appointment from the Vatican and Pope Francis comes more than a year after Bishop Paul Sirba died in December 2019 and about seven months after former Bishop-elect Michael Mulloy resigned last September over allegations he sexually abused a minor in the 1980s in the Diocese of Rapid City in South Dakota. Felton, 66, most recently served as the vicar general and moderator of the curia for the Diocese in Green Bay, Wisconsin since 2014. He will now lead a diocese that serves 10 counties in northeastern Minnesota with more than 44,000 Catholics and 71 parishes.