Staff

SSt. Joseph's Church, Detroit, Michigan



		Father Mark Borkowski, Pastoral Administrator Deacon Bill Stimpson
		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.

		Deacon Bill Stimpson was ordained on June 11, 1983, and served at several parishes in the Archdiocese of Detroit before arriving at our cluster. He worked for 39 years in the electrical construction industry and is now retired from Local 58 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. In the last 5 years of his electrical career, he worked as an instructor at the Electrical Industry Training Center in Warren Michigan. Deacon Stimpson can be reached by e-mail at stimpson.jr@sbcglobal.net, or by phone at the cluster offices at (313) 831-6659.