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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
Most Reverend
David R. Choby
July 2008 Schedule
July
1 6:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
2 6:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
3
6:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
4
7:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
5 7:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
6 8:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
7 7:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
8 7:15 a.m.-Nashville,
St. Cecilia Convent, Mass
July
9 Noon- Fairview,Camp
Marymount,
CYO Workshop Mass
July
12 9:00 a.m.-
Antioch, St. Ignatius,
Charismatic Conference Mass
July
15
11:30 a.m.-
Nashville, Mercy Convent,
Priests’ Assembly
July
24
1:30 p.m.-
Nashville, Catholic Center,
Employee Benefits meeting
July 25 9:30 a.m.-
Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Dominican Final
Profession
of Vows
July 26 McEwen, St.
Patrick, Annual Irish Homecoming Picnic
July 28 9:30 a.m.-
Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation, Dominican First
Profession
of Vows
July 31 LaCrosse,
Wisconsin, Dedication of Our Lady of Guadalupe Shrine
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
Rev. Emmanuel F. Callahan, July 03, 1944
Most Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, D.D, July 12,
1902
Rev. Henry A. Ottke, July 12, 1917
Rev. James T. O'Connor, July 15, 1929
Very Rev. Joseph Stokes, July 16, 1854
Rev. John K. Larkin, July 17, 1907
Rt. Rev. Msgr. James P. Whitfield, July 17,
1953
Rev. Eugene R. Hanafee, July 18, 1932
Rev. Edward P. Desmond, July 19, 1957
Rev. Robert A. Wiley, July 20, 1962
Rev. John J. Schelly, July 24, 1969
Rev. Patrick S. McGuire, July 28, 1924
Rev. William J. Fleming, July 29, 1999
Rev. James C. Rittenhouse, July 30, 1934
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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