OTHER PONTIFICAL ACTS

VATICAN CITY, DEC 20, 2005 (VIS) - The Holy Father appointed Fr. David R. Choby, of the clergy of the diocese of Nashville, U.S.A., diocesan administrator and pastor of St. John Vianney parish, as bishop of the same diocese (area 42,206, population 2,105,161, Catholics 71,188, priests 75, permanent deacons 52, religious 212). The bishop-elect was born in Nashville in 1947 and ordained as a priest in 1974.
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