# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/donald-walter-trautman
# Generated: 2026-08-15T12:02:35.624Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/donald-walter-trautman"
name: "Donald Walter Trautman"
slug: "donald-walter-trautman"
description: "Donald Walter Trautman was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as bishop of the Diocese of Erie in Western Pennsylvania from 1990 to 2011. He previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo in Upstate New York from 1985 to 1990."
tagline: "Catholic bishop (1936–2022)"
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country:
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category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1936-06-24"
deathDate: "2022-02-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump