Richard Pius Miles

Richard Pius Miles (May 17, 1791 – February 21, 1860) was an American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of the Diocese of Nashville.

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• Called to the elevated station we so unworthily occupy, and deeply sensible of our utter unworthiness for so responsible, so dignified, an office, in vain did we remonstrate in all sincerity with his present Holiness, Pope Gregory XVI, and solicit permission to decline the burthen of the Episcopacy. Acquainted, however, with your spiritual privations, and fearing that by any further postponement we would resist the will of Heaven, and that through our fault souls redeemed by the Saviour's blood might perish—trusting solely to the mercies of our God, who alone is capable of strengthening our weakness, and imparting to us wisdom and knowledge—we at length submitted to the will of the Holy Father, and were consecrated Bishop of Nashville.
  • The Father of the Church in Tennessee