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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
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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 July 2009 Schedule
July 2
3:30 p.m. – Nashville, Catholic Center, Fleming Trust
Meeting
6 p.m. – Franklin, St. Philip, Williamson County Serra
Club meeting
July 3
Catholic Center Closed, July 4th observance
July 5
8 a.m. – Nashville, St. Pius X, Sunday Liturgy
9:30 a.m. – Nashville, Opryland Hotel Mass
July 8
12 p.m. (noon) – Fairview, Camp Marymount, Youth
Leadership Workshop Mass/Lunch
July 11
8 a.m.-3 p.m. – Nashville, St. Ann, Knights of Columbus
Kickoff
10:30 a.m. – Nashville, Dominican Motherhouse Golden
Jubilee Mass; Sisters Mary Louis Baltz, O.P., Clare
Therese Dolan, O.P., and Regina Craft, O.P.
July 12
8 a.m. – Nashville, St. Pius X, Sunday Liturgy
July 13-15
Minneapolis, Minnesota, Guest House Conference
July 19
8 a.m. – Nashville, St. Pius X, Sunday Liturgy
3 p.m. – Fairview, Camp Marymount, Mass
July 21-22
Omaha, Nebraska, Installation of Archbishop George Lucas
July 24
9:30 a.m. – Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation,
Dominican Sisters’ Final Profession of Vows
July 26
8 a.m. – Nashville, St. Pius X, Sunday Liturgy
July 28
9:30 a.m. – Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation,
Dominican Sisters’ First Profession of Vows
6 p.m. – Nashville, Christ the King, Serra Club
Mass/Picnic for Seminarians
July 31
5:30 p.m. – Nashville, Cathedral of the Incarnation,
Mass/Celebration of Holy Orders, 100th Anniversary of
the Cathedral, 25th Anniversary of Rev. Patrick Kibby,
10th Anniversary of Deacons Jim McKenzie, Mark Faulkner
and John Krenson
Please pray for vocations, for our priests and for the following
deceased clergy of the Diocese of Nashville:
In Remembrance
- July
Very Rev. Joseph Stokes
July 16, 1854
Most Rev. Patrick A. Feehan, D.D.
July 12, 1902
Rev. John K. Larkin
July 17, 1907
Rev. Henry A. Ottke
July 12, 1917
Rev. Patrick S. McGuire
July 28, 1924
Rev. James T. O'Connor
July 15, 1929
Rev. Eugene R. Hanafee
July 18, 1932
Rev. James C. Rittenhouse
July 30, 1934
Rev. Emmanuel F. Callahan
July 3, 1944
Rt. Rev. Msgr. James P. Whitfield
July 17, 1953
Rev. Edwad P. Desmond
July 19, 1957
Rev. Robert A. Wiley
July 20, 1962
Rev. John J. Schelly
July 24, 1969
Rev. William J. Fleming
July 29, 1999
Rev. William M. Nolan
July 4, 2008
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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