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Bishop's Page!
The Most
Reverend David R. Choby
Bishop of Nashville
The
Catholic Center
2400 Twenty-first Avenue South
Nashville, TN. 37212
Bishop@dioceseofnashville.com
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About Bishop David R. Choby
Bishop Choby
was born in Nashville and baptized in the Cathedral of Incarnation
where he was ordained a bishop. He is the son of Raymond and Rita
Choby, both deceased. He has one sister, Diane C. Dyche of Fort
Worth, Texas. He attended Catholic schools growing up, graduating
from Father Ryan High School in 1965.
After spending one year at Aquinas
College in Nashville, he entered the seminary at St. Ambrose College
in Davenport, Iowa. He also studied at Catholic University of
America in Washington, D.C., before being ordained as a priest on
Sept. 6, 1974 by Bishop Joseph A. Durick at St. Henry Church in
Nashville.
He has served a number of assignments
in the Diocese of Nashville. He was associate pastor at St. Joseph
Parish, Madison, administrator of St. Ann Parish, and spent three
years in residence at Christ the King Parish while working at the
diocesan tribunal. From 1989 until his ordination as bishop, he
served as pastor of St. John Vianney Parish in Gallatin, where he
has been active in the community and in the local ministerial
association.
Bishop Choby holds a Canon Law degree
from the Angelicum Church in Rome and has worked at the diocesan
tribunal throughout most of his priesthood. He was on the faculty of
The Pontifical College Josephinum, a seminary in Columbus, Ohio
between 1984 and 1989. He currently serves on the seminary’s board.
He has served two five-year terms on the diocese’s Presbyteral
Council and College of Consultors.
Bishop Choby was elected as diocesan
administrator for the Diocese of Nashville by the diocesan College
of Consultors in 2004 after Bishop Kmiec, was installed as the
Bishop of Buffalo. Bishop Choby was installed fourteen months later
as the 11th bishop of Nashville on Feb. 27, 2006. He is only the
second priest of the diocese’s 169-year history to be tapped as its
bishop; the others have all come from outside the diocese.
Most
Reverend David R. Choby's Schedule
February 2012
Schedule
February 2
Return from Ad
Limina Visit
February 3
St. Thomas
Aquinas Forum – Dinner with Dr. Peter Kreeft at 5:30 pm, St.
Cecilia Motherhouse
February 3
St. Thomas
Aquinas Forum – Mass at 9:00 am, St. Cecilia Motherhouse
February 5
Memorial
Service for Bishop José Andrés Corral
Arredondo at 10:00 am, Sacred Heart Center
Confirmation at
2:00 pm, St. Matthew Catholic Church
February 7
Presbyteral
Council Meeting at 10:00 am, Catholic Center
RCIA
Presentation at 7:00 pm, St. Henry Catholic Church
February 9
Development
Dinner at 6:30 pm, Bishop Choby’s Residence
February 11
Nun Run at
12:00 pm, St. Thomas Hospital
Pope John Paul
II High School Celebrating 10 Years of Excellence, Dinner &
Auction Honoring Mr. James W. Carell at 6:00 pm, Bluegrass Yacht
& Country Club
February 12
World Marriage
Day Mass at 2:00 pm, Cathedral of the Incarnation
February 13
Board Meeting
at 9:00 am, Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio
February 17
Finance Board
Meeting at 9:00 am, Travel to Assumption Seminary at 5:55 pm,
San Antonio, Texas
February 18
Reader
Installation at Assumption Seminary at 10:30 am, San Antonio,
Texas
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following
deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
February
Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Patrick L. Mahony
February 1, 1929
Rev. Luzerne A.
Schnupp
February 1, 2003
Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Francis T. Sullivan
February 2, 1946
Rev. Joseph W.
Julius
February 3, 2006
Rev. William
Fennelly
February 6, 1866
Rt. Rev. Msgr.
Thomas P. Duffy
February 6, 1970
Rev. James Arthur
Rudisill
February 8, 2006
Rev. John A. Nolan
February 9, 1928
Rev. John V.
Cunningham
February 9, 1940
Rev. Barry James
Griffin, S.D.S.
February 11, 2008
Rev. Reginald
Orville Briscoe
February 11, 2002
Most Rev. John P.
Farrelly, D.D.
February 12, 1921
Most Rev. William L.
Adrian
February 13, 1972
Rev. George Taylor
Hutton
February 13, 1983
Rev. Msgr. Mark
Edward Dolan, P.A.
February 14, 1984
Rev. John W.
Sliemers, C.PP.S.
February 15, 1934
Very Rev. Louis
Hoste
February 15, 1888
Most Rev. James
Whelan, O.P., D.D.
February 18, 1878
Rev. John F. Walsh
February 19, 1882
Most Rev. Richard
Pius Miles, O.P., D.D.
February 21, 1860
Rev. Thomas A.
Giblin, C.S.SP.
February 23, 1934
Rev. Charles V.
Schrimpf
February 23, 1958
Rev. Michael McAleer
February 24, 1881
Rev. Curvin P.
Wassem
February 25, 1965
Very Rev. Msgr. John
Harold Shea
February 26, 1967
Rev. Abram Joseph
Ryan
February 28, 1905
Rev. Joseph Leo
Boehmer
February 29, 1928
Please
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to view the entire list of anniversaries of deaths of Priests of the
Diocese of Nashville
Link to information on past Bishops of Nashville
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