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Joseph's Church, Detroit, Michigan |
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Father Mark Borkowski, Pastoral Administrator |
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Fr.
Mark Borkowski, Pastoral Administrator of the cluster, was born
on First Friday, September 4, 1964, in the city of Kalamazoo, Mich. He is
the oldest son of Mr. A. Ronald Borkowski and Mrs. M. Joan Herbst. His two
younger brothers are Steven Ronald and Matthew Shawn Borkowski. He was baptized
on October 18, 1964, in St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Jackson,
Mich. He also received his first Holy Communion and Confirmation there in
the years 1972 and 1973, respectively. Father spent the first sixteen years
of this life on a grain farm in the small village of Munith in south-central
Michigan. He attended elementary school in Munith and high school in Stockbridge,
Mich. He graduated from Lumen Christi Catholic High School in 1982. In 1988
he entered the Norbertine Abbey of St. Michael in Orange, Calif., and spent
two years there in the postulancy and novitiate. In 1990 he entered Saints
Cyril & Methodius Seminary at Orchard Lake, Mich. He was ordained a
deacon by Bishop Kevin Britt on December 8, 1995. Fr. Borkowski graduated
from the seminary in 1996 and was ordained a priest by his eminence Adam
Cardinal Maida that same year on May 25. He celebrated his First Solemn
Mass on May 26, 1996, at St. Ladislaus Church in Hamtramck, Mich. Father
Borkowski was assigned as assistant pastor to St. Margaret of Scotland parish
in St. Clair Shores, Mich., from 1996 to 1999. In he was then assigned as
assistant pastor at St. Frances Cabrini parish in Allen Park, Mich. In late
September of 2001 he was named temporary administrator of Sweetest Heart
of Mary Church in addition to his duties at St. Frances. Fr. Mark Borkowski
is of Polish descent and four times has visited Poland, where he has many
cousins and distant family members. Father Mark was installed as pastor
of Sweetest Heart of Mary Church on July 20, 2002. In addition, he was also
named as administrator of St. Josaphat Parish in July of 2003 and most recently
(2004) he was named administrator of St. Joseph Parish. |
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Deacon Stimpson can be reached by e-mail at stimpson.jr@sbcglobal.net, or by phone at the cluster offices at (313) 831-6659. |