Date: Fri 13-Jun-1997

Publication: Bee

Author: KAAREN

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Bishop Egan Announces Appointments

The Rev Raja Bose, parochial vicar of St. Rose of Lima Parish, has been named

parochial vicar of St. Edward the Confessor Parish in New Fairfield, effective

June 20.

The announcement was made last Friday by The Most Rev Edward M. Egan, Bishop

of Bridgeport, who also announced the appointment of newly ordained Thomas W.

Powers, a former Newtown resident, as parochial vicar of St. Theresa Parish in

Trumbull, effective July 26.

Father Raja Bose was born in southern India, where he was ordained in 1973 and

served as a pastor for 14 years. He came to the United States in 1988, earned

a master's degree in marriage and family therapy, and served as parochial

vicar of St. Stephen's Parish in Bridgeport and St. Thomas the Apostle in

Norwalk.

He came to St. Rose Parish in August 1995.

Father Powers grew up in Newtown, attending St. Rose of Lima Elementary School

and Immaculate High School in Danbury. He graduated from the University of

Notre Dame in 1987 with a bachelor's degree in economics, and worked as a

senior financial consultant for Andersen Consulting in New York City before

completing his pre-theology courses at St. John Fisher Seminary. He received

his STB degree from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome in 1996 and

was ordained to the deaconate in St. Peter's Basilica that same year.

He served his deacon internship at the North America College in Vatican City

and is currently attending the John Paul II Institute for Marriage and the

Family in Rome.

Father Powers celebrated his first Mass on May 25 at St. Mark's Church in

Stratford. His parents, Thomas and Margaret Mary Warren, now live in

Naperville, Ill.