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The Diocese of Nashville encompasses 38 counties spread over 16,302 square miles of Middle Tennessee. Its Catholic population has been estimated at 76,000, which represents about 3.4% of the total population in the diocese. As of 2016, Mass was offered in Spanish, Vietnamese, Latin, and Korean.
David Raymond Choby (January 17, 1947 – June 3, 2017) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the 11th bishop of the Diocese of Nashville in Tennessee from 2005 until his death in 2017. He previously served as diocesan administrator for the diocese from 2004 to 2006.
[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. In November 2018, Spalding released a list of 13 diocesan clerics with credible accusations of sexual abuse of minors who served in Tennessee from the 1940s through the 1990s.
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On December 11, 1963, Paul VI appointed Durick as coadjutor bishop of the Diocese of Nashville with right of succession to Bishop William Adrian. Durick was installed on March 3, 1964. Durick was inspired to lead the Catholic Church in Tennessee into a new era by the reforms initiated by Pope John XXIII in the Second Vatican Council.
"Toby Keith: American Icon" — a two-hour NBC special recorded in July in Nashville — honored the artist who died on Feb. 5 after a nearly 20-month bout with stomach cancer.
The Cathedral of the Incarnation, located at 2015 West End Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee, is the cathedral seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Nashville. It is named after the mystery of the Incarnation, which celebrates the miraculous conception of Jesus in the womb of the Virgin Mary, by which God became man according to Christian teaching.