Fr. David Patrick Daly, L.C., was born on April 7, 1969, in Saint Louis, Missouri, United States. He entered the novitiate on September 15, 1990, in Cheshire, Connecticut. He made his perpetual profession on September 15, 1995. He was ordained a priest on January 2, 2001, in Rome. He holds a licentiate in philosophy and theology from the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum.

During the 1995-1996 and 1998-1999 academic years, he was part of the training team at the Cheshire Center for Humanities and Sciences. Between 2000 and 2008, he was part of the training team at the Thornwood Center for Advanced Studies in Rome. From 2002 to 2004, he was chaplain at Compass, where he worked with college students in the northeastern United States. He was dean of the Cheshire Center for Humanities and Sciences from 2014 to 2017.

Since September 2023, he has been the Director General’s delegate for the Rome Delegation.