His Excellency, The Most Reverend Martin David Holley |
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Bishop of Memphis | |
Archdiocese | Louisville |
Diocese | Memphis |
Appointed | August 23, 2016 |
Installed | October 19, 2016 |
Predecessor | J. Terry Steib |
Orders | |
Ordination | May 18, 1987 |
Consecration | July 2, 2004 by Theodore Edgar McCarrick, John Ricard, and Leonard Olivier |
Personal details | |
Born |
Pensacola, Florida |
December 31, 1954
Previous post | Auxiliary Bishop of Washington; Titular Bishop of Rusibisir (2004-2016) |
Motto |
"IN AETERNUM MISERICORDIA EIUS" "HIS MERCY ENDURES FOREVER" |
Styles of Martin David Holley |
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Reference style | |
Spoken style | Your Excellency |
Religious style | Bishop |
"IN AETERNUM MISERICORDIA EIUS"
Martin David Holley (born December 31, 1954) is a Roman Catholic prelate, the Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Memphis, Tennessee. He served as an Auxiliary Bishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C., from 2004 to 2016.
Holley was born in Pensacola, Florida, and graduated from Tate High School in 1973; while a student there he was a basketball standout and active in student government. He graduated in 1975 from Faulkner State Junior College in Bay Minette, Alabama, with an Associate of Arts degree in general studies, and from Alabama State University in Montgomery in 1977 with a B.A. in management. At both institutions, Bishop Holley excelled at basketball and participated in student government.
Holley undertook post-graduate studies at the Theological College at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., and St. Vincent de Paul Seminary in Boynton Beach, Florida, where he earned a Master of Divinity degree. He was ordained to the priesthood on May 8, 1987, at the Cathedral of the Sacred Heart in Pensacola, Florida.