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Fr. Daniel J. Mahan, a priest of the Archdiocese of Indianapolis, is the first director of the USCCB’s Institute on the Catechism.

Mahan earned a bachelor of arts from St. Meinrad Seminary, a bachelor of sacred theology from Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, and a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum of St. Anselm.

In collaboration with the Franciscans of the Immaculate, Mahan produced A Tour of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, a seventy-two part video presentation in which he teaches the Catechism from cover to cover in ten-minute segments.

He currently resides in Washington D.C.