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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

 
 

About Bishop David R. Choby
Bishop 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 - 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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