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 September 2010 Schedule
September
2
9:10 a.m. -
Nashville, Father Ryan High School, School year opening
Mass
6 p.m. -
Nashville, Christ the King, Meeting/Dinner
September
4
10 a.m. -
Mass, Church of the Assumption
September
6
4 p.m. -
Nashville, Mercy Convent, 70th Jubilee Mass
for Sisters Mary Maurice Dolan,
Mary Lillian
Heitzeberg, and Mary Gemma Marlowe, R.S.M.
September
7
10 a.m. -
Nashville, Catholic Center, Presbyteral Council Meeting
September
8-10
Altoona,
Pennsylvania, Solvak Clergy Conference
September
11
4:30 p.m. -
Nashville, St. Pius X, Mass/Century Club Banquet
September
12
Time/Location TBA, Retrovaille
September
14
11:30 a.m. -
Nashville, Mercy Convent, Priests’ Assembly
September
16
10 a.m. -
Nashville, Catholic Center, GSO meeting
2:30 p.m. -
Nashville, Catholic Center, Camp Marymount meeting
September
17
6:30 p.m. -
Nashville, Christ the King, Catechetical Leaders’
Banquet
September
18
9 a.m. -
Brentwood, Holy Family, Carell Conference
5:30 p.m. -
Nashville, Vanderbilt Mariott, Mass/Dinner-National
Ladies of Charity Assembly
September
19
4 p.m. -
Antioch, St. Ignatius, 30th Anniversary
Reception for Deacon P.J. Hoefler
September
21
11:00 a.m.- Nashville, Catholic Center, Tribunal
Collegiate Board
6:00
p.m.- Nashville,
Overbrook School,
40 Days For Life
Mass
September
26
2 p.m. -
Murfreesboro, Middle Tennessee Medical Center, Chapel
Dedication
September
28
7 p.m. -
Nashville, Father Ryan High School, Deacon Candidates’
Mass
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following
deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
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September
Rev.
Patrick McNamara
September 3, 1878
Most Rev.
Thomas S. Byrne, D.D.
September 4, 1923
Rev.
Charles C. O’Donnell
September 9, 1968
Rev.
Edgar S. Ballentine
September 13, 1998
Very Rev.
Martin O. Riordan
September 17, 1878
Rev. E.
B. VanTroostenberghe
September 19, 1878
Rev.
James T. Lorigan
September 24, 1935
Rev.
Vincent H. Kaufman
September 25, 1979
Rev.
Innocent I. Bergrath
September 25, 1881
Rev.
James Allen Black
September 25, 1984
Rev.
James J. Mooney
September 27, 1878
Rev.
Patrick Ryan
September 28, 1878
Rev.
Richard E. Wilson
September 29, 1998
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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