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The diocese has 75 priests and 70 permanent deacons serving 59 churches. There are 32 seminarians currently studying for the priesthood. [1] The majority of the diocese membership lives in Nashville and its surrounding suburbs. However, some parishes outside that area have seen considerable growth in recent times due to the influx of Hispanic ...
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.
In 1893, the year before Byrne arrived in Nashville, the diocese contained 18,000 Catholics, 38 churches, and 30 priests. [6] By the time of his death 30 years later in 1923, there were 25,000 Catholics, 58 churches, and 53 priests. [7] One of Byrne's most significant accomplishments was the construction of a new cathedral.
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 ...
A Pennsylvania man who tried to shoot a pastor during a sermon that was being livestreamed earlier this week has been additionally charged with homicide, accused of fatally shooting his cousin the ...
The case is described in the book Sin, Shame, And Secrets: The Murder of a Nun, the Conviction of a Priest, and Cover-up in the Catholic Church by Toledo journalist David Yonke [4] and in the "Alphabet of 'New' Evil" included in The New Evil: Understanding the Emergence of Modern Violent Crime by Dr. Michael H. Stone and Dr. Gary Brucato.
“The diocese needs to move forward, but we cannot do that if priests must live under the shadow of threats like these from the man we looked up to as our spiritual father for over a decade.”
On March 27, 2023, a mass shooting occurred at The Covenant School, a Presbyterian Church in America parochial elementary school in the Green Hills neighborhood of Nashville, Tennessee when 28-year-old Aiden Hale (born Audrey Elizabeth Hale), a transgender man and former student of the school, [5] [6] [7] killed three nine‑year‑old children and three adults before being shot and killed by ...