Phone: 655-9575, 655-3303 x12 or x29 E-mail: pastor@stmdarienct.org Fr. Furey became the second Pastor of St. Thomas More Church on January 2, 1998. Fr. Furey was ordained by the late Bishop Walter Curtis on May 15, 1971. He attended seminary programs at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, and St. Francis Seminary in Loretto, Pennsylvania, where he received a Masters of Divinity degree. After ordination, Fr. Furey served several parishes as Parochial Vicar, including: St. Catherine Church in Trumbull, St. Joseph Church in Brookfield, Sacred Heart Church in Stamford, and St. Jerome Church in Norwalk. In addition, Fr. Furey served as Administrator to St. Joseph Church in Brookfield, Our Lady of Fatima Church in Wilton, and also briefly in Norwalk. Fr. Furey was appointed Pastor of St. Andrew Church in Bridgeport in July of 1989 by Bishop Edward Egan. While at St. Andrew Church, Fr. Furey served as Fire Department Chaplain and for 5 1/2 years as Pastor and President of the Bridgeport Catholic Elementary School System. Fr. Furey can often be seen on the church grounds with his faithful dog Sandy, a Yellow Lab. Fr. Furey was installed in the Equestrian Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulchre in September of 2000. Presently Fr. Furey serves as a member of the Bishop's Personnel Committee for Priests as well as the Clergy Steering Committee for the Bishop's Appeal, and Pastor President of the Stamford Regional School System. Fr. Furey sometimes accompanies his sermon with a song, Thank You Lord, which he wrote after almost dying of pneumonia. |
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