Father Paul Borowski, 54, was born and grew up in Baltimore. He professed vows in 1982 and was ordained in 1987. He has master’s degrees in religious education and divinity from Mount St. Alphonsus in Esopus, N.Y., and Washington Theological Union in Washington, D.C., respectively. In 1992 Father Borowski earned a licentiate in philosophy from the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
He has served at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Parish in Ellicott City, Md.; and since August 2008 at St. Clement Church in Saratoga Springs, N.Y.
He taught in the philosophy department of St. John’s University in Queens, N.Y., with a specialty in business ethics. Father Borowski served as assistant director of formation from 1994 to 2002, then director of formation till 2008. He was elected to the province’s extraordinary provincial council in 2005 and re-elected in 2008 and 2011.
He has been involved in youth ministry for decades. During summers from 1995 to 2007 and 2009 to 2013 he has taken young people to work on Habitat for Humanity projects. From 2001 to 2007 he served as Life Teen priest for St. Martin of Tours Parish in Bethpage, N.Y., and he attended World Youth Days in 1992 and 2002.