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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
MAY
May 2
6:30 p.m.-Nashville, Christ the King, Confirmation for Christ
the King and St. Bernard Academy
May 3
6:30 p.m.- Fairview, Camp Marymount, 70th Anniversary
Celebration
May 4
2 p.m.- Brentwood, Holy Family, Confirmation
May 6-7
Louisville,
Kentucky, Bishops’ Provincial Meeting
May 8
8:30 a.m.-
Nashville, Catholic Center, Budget Review meeting
5 p.m.- Gallatin, Sumner Station, Grand Opening
May 9
7 p.m.-
Antioch, St. Ignatius, Confirmation
May 10
9:30
a.m.-Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Aquinas College
Baccalaureate Mass
2 p.m.-
Clarksville, Immaculate Conception, Confirmation for Immaculate
Conception and St. Francis of Assisi/Dover
7 p.m.-
Springfield, Our Lady of Lourdes, Confirmation
May 13
11:30 a.m.- Nashville, Mercy Convent, Priests’ Assembly
May 14
7 p.m.-Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Confirmations
for St. Christopher/Dickson, St. Patrick/McEwen, St. Elizabeth
Ann Seton/Tennessee Ridge
May 15
1 p.m.- Nashville, St. Mary Villa, Annual Corporation Meeting
6 p.m.-Cookeville, St. Thomas Aquinas, Confirmations for St.
Thomas Aquinas and Divine Savior/Celina
May 16
9 a.m.-Nashville, Catholic Center, Diocese of Nashville Finance
Board Meeting
7 p.m.- Gallatin, St. John Vianney, Confirmations for St. John
Vianney, Holy Family/Lafayette
May 17
6 p.m.-
Nashville, Father Ryan High School Field House, Baccalaureate
Mass
May 18
4 p.m.-
Nashville, Curb Event Center @ Belmont University, Father Ryan
High School Graduation
May 18
10 a.m.-
Fayetteville, St. Anthony, Silver Jubilee Mass
May 19
Noon-
Shreveport, Louisiana, Episcopal Ordination/Installation of Most
Rev. Michael G. Duca
May 20
11 a.m.-
Nashville, Catholic Center, Tribunal Collegiate Board
6:30 p.m.-
Nashville, Downtown Hilton, Easter Seals Honoree Banquet for
Monroe Carell
May 21
10 a.m.-
Nashville, Catholic Center, Priests’ Retirement Meeting
7 p.m.-
Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Open Seating
Confirmation
May 23
10:45 a.m. Nashville, St. Cecilia Academy, Baccalaureate Mass
6 p.m.- Nashville, St. Cecilia Academy, Graduation
May 24
10 a.m.- Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Pope John Paul
II High School Baccalaureate Mass
May 25
2:30 p.m.- Nashville, Opry House, Pope John Paul II High School
Graduation
May 27
8:30 a.m.- Nashville, Mercy Convent, Catholic Center Staff
Retreat
May 28
6:30 p.m.- Nashville, Loew’s Vanderbilt Plaza, Catholic
Foundation Dinner
May 30
10:30 a.m.- Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Ordination
into the Priesthood, Mark Sappenfield, Nicholas Allen, Anthony
Lopez
May 31
7:30 p.m.-Donelson, Sacred Heart Hispanic Center, Confirmation
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
MAY
Michael J. McInery,
May 2, 1872
Msgr. Albert A. Siener,
May 2, 1972
Father Coleman M. Ballinger,
May 3, 1973
Msgr. Louis J. Kemphues,
May 13, 1963
Father Carl Fassnacht,
May 22, 1989
Father Joseph Merkley,
May 24, 1922
Samuel Cardinal Stritch,
May 26, 1958
Msgr. Timothy C. Abbott,
May 30, 1932
Msgr. John M. Mogan,
May 30, 1937
Father Leon Englert,
May 31, 1950
Deacon
Paul E. Wortmann,
May 31, 1977
Please click here 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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