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Pope Francis appointed Spalding on November 21, 2017, as the twelfth bishop of Nashville. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He was consecrated on February 2, 2018. by Archbishop Joseph Edward Kurtz , with Archbishop Christophe Pierre and Cardinal Justin Rigali serving as co-consecrators.
The next bishop of Nashville was David Choby, named by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005. A study released in 2014 by the Center for Applied Research in the Apostolate (CARA) at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., cited the Diocese of Nashville as having the 8th highest rate of conversions to the Catholic Church. [18] Choby died in 2017.
When a diocese is suppressed or when the diocesan see is transferred to another location, the title of the former see becomes available for assignment to a titular bishop or, in the case of an archdiocese, a titular archbishop or an archbishop ad personam. The Vatican resurrected the names of many former sees of the United States in the 1990s ...
Pope Francis appointed Beckman bishop for the Diocese of Knoxville on May 7, 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] On July 26, 2024, Beckman was consecrated as a bishop. See also
Nashville, Tennessee, US James Daniel Niedergeses (February 2, 1917 – November 16, 2007) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the ninth bishop of the Diocese of Nashville in Tennessee from 1975 to 1992.
Sep. 17—Boys from Joplin and Carthage and a boy and a girl from Neosho are among 11 alleged victims of past sexual abuse by Catholic Church officials cited in a lawsuit filed last week against ...
David Choby was born on January 17, 1947, in Nashville, Tennessee.He was the son of Raymond and Rita Choby. He had one sister, Diane C. Dyche of Fort Worth, Texas.. Choby was baptized in the Cathedral Church of the Incarnation in Nashville, where he would later be consecrated as bishop.
Pages in category "Roman Catholic bishops of Nashville" ... James Whelan (bishop) This page was last edited on 10 May 2023, at 15:39 (UTC). Text ...