Welcome to the
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 January 2010 Schedule
February 1
9:10
a.m. - Hendersonville, Pope John Paul II High School,
Catholic Schools Week Mass
February 3
10
a.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, All
Schools Mass
February 4
1
p.m. - Donelson, Holy Rosary Academy, Celebrity Reader
7
p.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Adult
Confirmation
February 5
9
a.m. - Nashville, Catholic Center, Finance Board meeting
6
p.m. - Nashville, Loew’s Vanderbilt Plaza, Bishop’s
Annual Appeal Celebration Dinner
February 6
5:30
p.m. - Nashville, Dominican Motherhouse, STA Forum Mass
February 7
2
p.m. - Nashville, St. Henry Church, Confirmation
February 9
10
a.m. - Nashville, Catholic Center, Presbyteral Council
meeting
February 9-10
Louisville, KY, Bishops’
Provincial Meeting
February 10
2
p.m. - Owensboro, Kentucky, Episcopal
Ordination/Installation of Most Rev. William F. Medley
February 11
7
p.m. - Madison, St. Joseph, RCIA Program
February 12
8:30
a.m. - Nashville, St. Henry Church, In Service Mass
February 14
7
a.m. - Fairview, Camp Marymount, Mens’ Cursillo Mass
February 14
2:30
p.m. - Nashville, St. Henry Church, 25 and 50 year
Wedding Anniversary Celebration Mass
February 15
9
a.m. - Columbus, Ohio, Pontifical College Josephinum,
Board of Trust Meeting
7
p.m. - Hendersonville, Pope John Paul II High School,
Ink & Blood Exhibit
February 17
8:30 a.m.- Nashville, Catholic
Center, Ash Wednesday Mass
10
a.m. - Nashville, Belmont University Neely Hall, Ash
Wednesday Service
5:30
p.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Mass
February 18
4
p.m. - Nashville, Catholic Center, EACS Meeting
February 19
7
p.m. - Springfield, Our Lady of Lourdes, Lenten Talk
February 20
6:30
p.m. - Nashville, Dominican Motherhouse, Catholic
Medical Association Dinner and Lenten Program
February 21
7
a.m. - Fairview, Camp Marymount, Womens’ Cursillo Mass
11
a.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Mass
3
p.m. - Nashville, St. Henry Church, Rite of Election
February 22
5:30
p.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation,
Ordination Mass of Reverend Prentice Dean
February 23
11
a.m. - Nashville, Catholic Center, Tribunal Collegiate
Board
February 25
7
p.m. - Nashville, Mercy Convent, Deacon Discernment
Program
February 26
6
p.m. - Donelson, Knights of Columbus #4972, Lenten Mass
and Talk
February 27
6:30
p.m. - Nashville, Fleming Center, Hearts for Mercy
Dinner
February 28
6
p.m. - Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Mass
followed by Lenten Concert
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following
deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
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January
Rev. Joseph Edward. Wesley
January 30, 1984
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
Rt. Rev. Msgr. Thomas P. Duffy
February 6, 1970
Rev. William Fennelly
February 6, 1866
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. Mark Edward Dolan
February 14, 1984
Very Rev. Louis Hoste
February 15, 1888
Rev. John W. Sliemers
February 15, 1934
Most Rev. James Whelan, O.P., D.D.
February 18, 1878
Rev. John F. Walsh
February 19, 1882
Most Rev. Richard P. Miles, O.P., D.D.
February 21, 1860
Rev. Thomas A. Giblin, C.S.S.P.
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. I. Harold Shea
February 26, 1967
Rev. Abram Joseph Ryan
February 28, 1905
Rev. Joseph L. 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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