# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dale-joseph-melczek
# Generated: 2026-08-15T08:07:36.706Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/dale-joseph-melczek"
name: "Dale Joseph Melczek"
slug: "dale-joseph-melczek"
description: "Dale Joseph Melczek was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Detroit in Michigan from 1982 to 1992 and as bishop of the Diocese of Gary in Indiana from 1996 until 2014."
tagline: "Catholic bishop"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Dale_J._Melczek.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Religious Figures"
  slug: "religious-figures"
profileType:
  name: "Religious Figure"
  slug: "religious-figure"
birthDate: "1938-11-09"
deathDate: "2022-08-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           37.8
  momentum:             3.2
  historical:           5.270230666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Joseph_Melczek"
    title: "Dale Joseph Melczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%84_%DA%86%D9%88%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%81_%D9%85%D9%84%D9%83%D8%B2%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ديل چوزيف ملكزيك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Joseph_Melczek"
    title: "Dale Joseph Melczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Melczek"
    title: "Dale Melczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Joseph_Melczek"
    title: "Dale Joseph Melczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dale_Joseph_Melczek"
    title: "Dale Joseph Melczek"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q542407"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump